– on the Feast of St. Stephen
by Terry Savoie
A washed-out grey &
insignificantly non-
descript, house sparrows
scavenge small scatter-
ings of seeds, gleaning off
the briefest clearing
where the wind has exposed
the barest patches
under snow: our winter
neighbors, the forever
fidgets, flitting in & flitting …
Beyond a previous appearance in Portage, nearly four hundred of Terry’s poems have appeared both here and abroad over the past four decades. These include recent or forthcoming issues of The American Journal of Poetry, One, Bluestem, Cortland Review, America, Chiron Review and Birmingham Poetry Review. Terry’s chapbook, Reading Sunday, won the Bright Hill Competition and was published in the spring of 2018.
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