A Very Mary Variation
I used a borrowed line from Mary Oliver’s poem “Beans” as my final line today, describing yesterday morning
Something Watches
a hideous cry pierced the dark silence of the early October morning
a sound
not unlike
the screech of a barn owl
or
the shriek of a bobcat
or
the scream of a red fox
I knew I had seen the last of the old hen
something -I can’t name it-watches
Common Threads 