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Issue 19: | 15 Aug. 2023 |
Poem: | 160 words |
—After A forest nook for birds and wild animals and
Happy Piglets: A New Generation [1-2]
“They no longer just migrate through Poznań—the boars now live here,” said Maciej Kubiak, coordinator of the Crisis Management Centre (CZK) in Poznań, quoted by Gazeta Wyborcza.
—Maria Wilczek, Notes from Poland [3]
Boars ramble through cities, stop traffic, tear up yards. People are warned not to pet them, beasts some call “teddy bears.” But we on the live feed love to watch piglets leap on stone feeders like kids on the playground. Everyone loves to watch the boars feast on nuts and seeds, these boars who live in distant Poznan. Humble, not fierce, one lumbers through the park. Its fur resembles washed-out yarn from a much loved toy that I yearn to touch. Once thundering gods and heroes rode fierce boars. Freya beamed at the piglets frolicking in northern forests. Oaks let crumbs of sun through.
Publisher’s Notes:
Links below were retrieved on 15 August 2023.
most recent books are Why We Never Visited the Elms (Poetry Pacific, 2022), Poetry en Plein Air (Pony One Dog Press, 2020), and On the Other Side of the Window (Pski’s Porch, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Verse-Virtual, Poetry Breakfast, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Pure Slush’s anthology Home, among others. She has fond memories of taking art classes at the Worcester (MA) Art Museum with her father, drawing shoes, plastic grapes, and bottles. She lives in the DC area with the wry poet and flash fiction writer Ethan Goffman and their new cat Tyler.
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