For the Birds
by Gina Cohen, Nicholas
Klacsanzky, and Michael Dylan Welch
First published in Presence #58, July 2017, page 74. Originally written
on 6 July 2016 after a three-mile hike to
the waterfront at Saint Edward State Park in
Kenmore, Washington.
uphill walk . . .
crows call to each other
across the sky Gina
from
which window
will
the swallow come out next? Nicholas
empty beach—
sandpiper tracks
end at the bicycle track Michael
calling
to the chickadee
it
answers back Gina
parking lot seagull—
the white line
even whiter Nicholas
my
daughter’s little finger
on
the hummingbird nest Michael
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