"For instance," she says, "we can't relate
to five hundred finches dying."
The possibilities sweep
then alight on me
and I think, Wanna bet?
I'm contrary.
I like the sound
and cinematography
of so many finches
shattering
so we can write it down.
Heather McNaugher is the author of the poetry collection, System of Hideouts, and two chapbooks, Panic & Joy and Double Life. Her nonfiction has appeared in Fourth Genre and The Bellevue Literary Review. She teaches at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, where she is poetry editor of The Fourth River.
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November is an anagram
for fishhook
Taunja Thomson
Skull, My Former
Rachel J. Bennett
Level with Animals
Field Dressing
My Favorite Animal
For the Programmer
Sean M. Conrey
Alan
Lomax Translation No. 1:
Nimrod Workman, 'Mother
Jones Will' (1983)
Alan Lomax Translation No. 2:
"Belton Sutherland's
Field Holler" (1978)
Heather McNaugher
Nature & Environmental
Writing Workshop
Thea Goodrich
Keynes & Keats as the Keystone
Cowboy: Infinite Iterations
Vanessa Couto Johnson
augury
Raymond Farr
Encroachment on a Dry Source
Kristin LaFollette
The Burial
Anna Kreienberg
a tornado poem
Alejandro Escudé
A Proper Pressurized Blast
Cathryn Cofell
Throb