“Found Post with New Ending” and “Morning Palindrome” by Mary Lou Buschi (Poetry ’04)

Poetry alum Mary Lou Buschi has two poems featured in Hunger Mountain. Read excerpts from “Found Post with New Ending” and “Morning Palindrome” below.

Headshot of Mary Lou Buschi

Found Post with New Ending

Yesterday I was at the memorial park for the fireworks with my child. He was playing on the big metal slide with a bunch of other children. There was a boy between 5-7 years old, no parent in sight, hurling rocks and sticks and pushing and kicking other kids and just being rough.

Morning Palindrome

Sun between the tangle—
      Dust motes in my head.

She takes a dive at me,
      a hedge sparrow

protecting her young,
      until her eggs hatch.

Read the rest of these poems: Two Poems by Mary Lou Buschi