Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate.
Today’s poet, Marnie Reed Crowell of Deer Isle, welcomes spring with three brief poems about birds.
By Marnie Reed Crowell
Peek
Between the twigs
a warbler sings
morning air
aglow with aria
and all I see
is a tiny eye.
haiku by sparrow
Pale sun, old snow
white-throated sparrow
cold pure call of spring
call of spring
Spotted Sandpiper
Just at the silver seam
between the sea and shore
spotted sandpiper
teeters, speaks softly to itself
a poem it has by heart.
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry is produced in collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Poem copyright © 2011 Marnie Reed Crowell. Reprinted from “A Sky of Birds,” Threehalf Press, 2011, by permission of Marnie Reed Crowell. Questions about submitting to Take Heart may be directed to Gibson Fay-LeBlanc at mainepoetlaureate@gmail.com or 228-8263. “Take Heart: Poems from Maine,” an anthology collecting the first two years of this column, is now available from Down East Books.
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