Last day of February, flakes
fall like cotton balls. Behind
the clouds, the sun-ghost
presses its linen shroud,
winter weeks still weighting
the eaves’ edges until
they come: bluebirds pinwheel
around the gutter, splash
shoulders, ears, eyes,
bluer than blue against
the thick white sky.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 26, Issue 6.
Farm girl, rock climber, and professor, Karen Kilcup feels fortunate to be getting old. Her book The Art of Restoration received the 2021 Winter Goose Poetry Prize, and Red Appetite received the 2022 Helen Kay Poetry Chapbook Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has a forthcoming collection, Feathers and Wedges.
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