Contributor: Ingrid Bruck

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chipmunks skitter along the Taconic
busy
over the rocks
busy
flag tail raised
busy
the stream runs with chipmunks, rocks sing with chitter

brown wings splash
warm
shallows in sun
warm
brush tangled shade
warm
warbler splash bath in the Taconic

birds hopscotch on water
flit
skim the stream
flit
tree to bush
flit
catbirds hopscotch and fish the Taconic

the fifth ant after midnight crawls on me
crawls
I can’t sleep
crawls
strip my sheets
crawls
I wander the grounds, wrapped in sheets,
looking for another place to sleep



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Ingrid Bruck’s current work appears in Poetry Breakfast, Better Than Starbucks, Otata and Failed Haiku. Her debut chapbook, Finding Stella Maris by Flutter Press was released this year. Poetry website: www.ingridbruck.com