swamp sparrow

mid-quake

when sharp reach pangs
so long for holding & what
in need of her lost, where
soft grief trills
over low branch, see her
count our cost, leaf
by fallen why
and now
pause––

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

4 thoughts on “swamp sparrow”

  1. michael raven – Twin Cities, MN, USA – Nontraditional scribbler of words; occasionally coherent. Mostly harmless. Author of "galdr: thought + memory".
    michael raven says:

    💙 this one.

  2. chrisnelson61 – Stourbridge, UK – Chris Nelson was born in East Anglia, but grew up in Birmingham when his family relocated when he was still a young child. After leaving school he studied computing at what was then Wolverhampton Polytechnic, before deciding that it was not a career path he wanted to follow. He retrained as a teacher and has taught in a primary school in Dudley since the mid 1980's. He has dabbled in writing short stories since his youth, but has began writing more seriously since the turn of the century. He lives in Stourbridge with his wife and two children.
    chrisnelson61 says:

    This is great!

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