Marjorie Moorhead
Another Chickadee Poem
All pandemic long, I’ve been watching
chickadees.
Observing their swooping flight
to the feeder from scraggly branches.
Always taking turns;
no collisions, no fights.
Swoop in, take a seed,
swoop out.
I could watch them all day,
like flame of a campfire
or a baby in a crib, looking up
with sparkling eyes, existing
in some joyful world where knowledge
of hateful things hasn’t entered.
That shining pool
of innocence.
The irises like doors
to infinity
inviting you
back in.
—Submitted on 01/11/2021
Marjorie Moorhead is the author of the chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press 2019), and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books 2020). Her poems have appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Verse-Virtual, Rising Phoenix Review, Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed, Consilience, and other journals, as well as in nine anthologies, including Covid Spring (Hobblebush Books, 2020). A new collection is forthcoming from Indolent Books in 2021. Moorhead lives on the NH/VT border.
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