first cool September morning catbird wrenching its cry wrenching its cry
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Wally Swist
Wally Swist's books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), The Daodejing: A New Interpretation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015), Candling the Eggs (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2017), The Map of Eternity (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2018), and Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018). His poems and prose have appeared in The American Book Review, Anchor: Where Spirituality and Social Justice Meet, Appalachia, Arts: The Arts in Theological and Religious Studies, Commonweal, North American Review, and The Woven Tale Press. View all posts by Wally Swist
a cool dew
tattoos the bird's feet
the dove coos a wet warble
–Jan Way
love the repetition in this haiku.
blue jay
crying in the cemetery –
here, then there
…..
this happened exactly one week ago for me.
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but "wrenching" is It..
i have many catbirds here by the river bank.
i just keep hearing it slightly different each time i read it. i guess that's kinda catbird. angry squirrel sound.
just noticed author here. I have a copy of "The Silence Between Us".
got off the interweb with a bunch of others.
dedicated to J.B. & V.W.N? on 30 dec 2011. (names withheld )
i dig it. thanks for the craft you show.