Common Yellowthroat at Dusk

Sunlight retracts
like a tide...
A blade of prairie grass
arcs
            to
                        the

                                    earth

beneath a black-and-yellow shape.

Witchity, witchity, witchity...

Tiny bandit skulks

through day’s

ending light.


(From the book HEARTVINES)

Common Yellowthroat by Graham Gerdeman