Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

A matter of choice? Instinct?

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New wings, tight-bound in the nest?

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A predator’s call?

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to abandon soft closeness:

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What stakes the moment

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warmed by feathered breast and sun.

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under a cascade of vines,

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Two, closed-eye fledglings,

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on a back deck’s cedar rail.

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A dove’s shallow nest

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is no one’s child anymore.

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gives evidence her daughter

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a mother’s birthday

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no longer celebrated,

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On July the 2nd,

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with a boat and body bag.

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An object to recover

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beyond requiem.

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in the silence, in the depths

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Her spirit submerged

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Ledges underwater know.

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Baystones on shore understand.

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Why no chickadees?

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Why no warblers, no blue jays?

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At dawn, not a sound.

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Weighed down, she swallows the lake.

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or flickers of fireflies.

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in whip-poor-will calls

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she no longer finds wonder

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Her back to the land,

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