Two Poems by Kerrin McCadden (poetry, ’14)

An excerpt from the poem “Homing,” by Kerrin McCadden (poetry, ’14), one of two published at Four Way Review.

Additionally, Kerrin has two poems, “Killeter Forest: Father McLaughlin’s Well” and “When My Brother Dies,” in the winter 2017 issue of Prairie Schooner, unavailable on line.

 

HOMING

The sky is at the feeder again.
I mean the indigo bunting
with no bearings for home.
A man pulls into the driveway

after work—crunching stones,
hallooing up the stairs—
wanting to know about my day.
All the days are wranglers,

I say. I am not able to cite
my sources, but I make a list.
A woman at lunch said we do not 
plan to live two hundred years,

and so I think to tell him
—well, I do not plan to live
two hundred years! In my hands,
pillowcases I bought, embroidery […continue reading here]