by Meredith Davies Hadaway
Still no birds at my feeder.
The cardinal who chimed
the hour every morning has left
a winged absence at the window.
No sound now but the distant
growl of wheels on asphalt—
cars and trucks accelerating.
Unlike the birds, they go nowhere.
Meredith Davies Hadaway is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Small Craft Warning, a collaborative volume with artist Marcy Dunn Ramsey. Her previous collection, At the Narrows, was winner of the Delmarva Book Prize. She is currently the Sophie Kerr Poet-in-Residence at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
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