Lewis Turco’s larger works, all published in 2009, are Satan's Scourge, A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697 (Star Cloud Press), La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs (Bordighera Press), and a free, downloadable e-chapbook of poems, Attic, Shed, and Barn (Ahadada Press.com.) His traditionally formal anagram avatar, "Wesli Court," will publish a collection, The Gathering of the Elders and Other Poems, from Star Cloud Press of Phoenix on September 1st of this year. His blog is at http://www.lewisturco.net. ---------
Jays
Bluejays fall calling jubilations
upon the peanuts I have
placed in a basket and hung outside
the door. Other jays descend, of course,
the loudmouths, the greedy things.
They can’t talk any more — their beaks are
jammed. Well, they’re like that all year long here
in the coastal north. Other
birds have more sense, though some not much.
Yet the jays survive, somehow, wax fat
in the snow, growing louder,
jabbering as though we understood.
Valentine’s Day
has come and gone. There’s a heart
beating in the snow
which is melting. Perhaps soon
the heart will hear earth pulsing
in the rains, and it
will know its place in the world.
Perhaps not. Perhaps winter
birds beating about
the bushes at last will have
had enough, but not likely.
Meanwhile, here comes sun
just ahead of the clouds, and
who would have expected it?
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photo credit James Russell