New Work by Kelli J. Christenson

A new poem by alumna Kelli J. Christenson (poetry, ’13) appears online at The Collagist:

Nycticorax nycticorax audubonparki

Night herons, come to me, for it is night and I
have a poem to be written;
come to me out of
the tree
whose secret you are, nine birds
at-a-glance invisible
in the leafed branches of a live oak.

Come tell me how it is that first I
did not see you, only heard you

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