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| Skyler Ewing |
Living and Dying on a Spring Evening
As the sun begins to set, flightless
baby birds cheep in their basket of
twigs, spider silk, and dried grass
waiting for their mother. She is a robin
with russet breast like a flower of spring,
wheeling swift-winged across the sky.
And even with a large worm in her beak,
she sings her song of whistled splendor
on the way to feed her babies. Meanwhile,
by the side of the road, a runover possum
is surrounded by three turkey vultures. This
visage draws the attention of crows gripping
overhead electrical wires. They stand in a
line, black-robed, like judges examining the
scene of an accident, as a long slow
dusk begins to play the night-birds' tune.
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| William Ogden Haynes |
William Ogden Haynes is a poet and author of short fiction from Alabama, born in Michigan. He has published several collections of poetry, and many of his poems and short stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies. http://www.williamogdenhaynes.
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