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 – Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, where he has hosted monthly workshops 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 the Pushcart Prize in 2021, 2024 & 2025 as well as the Best of the Net Anthology in 2024. His work has appeared in The Lake, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, the Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others.
    Bartholomew Barker says:

    Lovely and dark. Well done!

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