Maura Harvey's Poetry
Color Memory
Dancing with Daddy
Destined
Fifth Guitar
The Gray-haired Woman
Older Brother
Park Scribe
Sacred Breath
Starfish
Talents
The Nest
The New House
Traveler
Two Volcanoes
Questions for Cuba
Preguntas Para Cuba
The Nest
Why there? She could have used the pepper tree or the Chinese elms.
The lemon tree would have worked. Just where I'd have to take it down, right above the threshold, snug against the porch light.
I found it on Easter morning. I'd seen something the day before, but I thought the wind had just scattered leaves and they'd stuck.
Got the step ladder, lifted off the precision of fern and string and twigs.
Too soon for eggs, at least.