Right on cue

                   the magpie

broken white

            I don't want to pick up

and the weather, of course,

so when sunshine joins the damp

I'm turning around & around

looking for indigo-violet stripes

                      a different pattern

stronger than re-assembly, the tug

and pull of resemblance

                                 much, much later, the rain

Copyright © Anna Reckin, 2006.

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Anne Reckin currently lives and works in Norwich, while finishing her PhD dissertation for the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo.