| The BOOKPRESS | November 1999 |
the birds rise up
the woman works
her eyes travel
sometimes
a way of knowing
flight is silent
as a wish at water’s
edge
in one long wonder
or hover
where poem meets
page
her memory of feather
with fingers
light as bone
where forests begin
a song of nests
beyond words’ reach
and ocean lets
her go
Katharyn
Howd Machan is an associate professor
of Writing at Ithaca College and the author of 18 published collections
of poems.
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