“Harbingers,” by Eric Cruz (Poetry ’20)

2020 poetry graduate Eric Cruz was recently featured in the LEON Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Harbingers” below:

Harbingers

  1.

All morning my throat catches,
the wind gray and wandering
along the spine of grief
hot from the bellies of howling dogs.
The windchimes stir, agate
clinking like a thousand well-learned prayers.

       2.
While hearing my children shriek
in Spanish and English–playtime,
two swings rising higher— 
a squirrel rests like a stone atop
the fence. 

Read the rest of this poem, as well as two others, here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/issue-6-eric-cruz/