Poetry from The Literary Review
Excuse Me?
STUART FRIEBERT
| My new neighbor, nice lady I've been told,
wife of a retired dentist who's in a nursing home alas, leans over the back fence, Mind if I feed that red-tailed hawk in your woods occasionally?—Excuse me?—Well, I like to scatter seed out in the open for mourning doves so the hawks can have a clear shot at them. Find them so delicious, as you might. The hawks will leave their cover to snatch one, and I'll get to see how they go about it, mister. Watch with me? It stops the heart. |
