Susannah Habecker  © 2009 All Rights Reserved

From The Window, West Tisbury

In the marginalia of this day
the leaves write themselves
in. Gone the green grass.

A loose-flapped blue tarp,
careless old throw,
covers its wood.

 

 

Kate McCann
Copyright © 2009 

Kate McCann teaches literature and creative writing at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, and lives in Weymouth. Her full-length collection, A Roof Gone To Sky, is due out by fall 2009. Presently she is enjoying the beautiful long days of August in New England, going for swims along the reeds with the dogs.

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