2019-06-10


Traveler
--Devin Johnston 
From the foot of Cotopaxi
and across the Gulf 
a Blackburnian warbler
follows a pulse, 
follows Polaris
and the Pole’s magnetic field 
through travail
and travel’s long ordeal, 
until he drops
to a black walnut’s
pinnate leaves 
tossing like waves
in the North Sea 
and glances toward
my lamplit, stationary world
of smooth planes: 
against a cloud,
his throat’s flame.

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