To Watch

In constant vigilance.

What quickens
toward some destined end
in keening cry. O bird.

Weep for this house,
in spiraled anguish.
I feel you poised.

A sense of something
making an exit. Shore foam
and the ebb of us, waving

Kelp -swaying praise
dance toward surfaces above
which seabirds circle, ready

To dive. Then Black Hawk
shadow, lined against
the light. What comes.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

2 thoughts on “To Watch”

  1. Bartholomew Barker – Hillsborough, North Carolina – Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
    Bartholomew Barker says:

    Lovely and dark. Well done!

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