Cutting a Path
- Cutting a Path
Her feathered throat starts to close asthe old crow moves off in her black huff.It's only a few feet, but she can feel
the offense, the language of insult and disfavor,and it is her, she grouses, her again,in the middle of someone else's
perseverance and intention, and it's me,Sadie, crossing her path, interruptingher appointed crow ways, the bold walk
across the road in full view of the squirrelsand jays, then looking for worms,prancing past a long black snake
near the big-house, it looked to be two of themyesterday, today it's only one. Was itreally there, she wonders, that other,
the baby, or was it a picture fromMonday's fitful dreams, the waking upfrightened and dry of tongue? [End Page 87]
Michele F. Cooper is the author of three books including Posting the Watch (WordTech, 2008) and founding editor of the Newport Review, Crone's Nest, and the Premier Poets chapbook series. She won Poetry Canada's Rhymed Poetry Competition and the TallGrass Poetry Competition. She recently left the outer edge of a horse farm in Portsmouth, RI, spent a year in Providence, and now writes and works as a book editor in the Cleveland area.
