by ANNA M. WARROCK
Repeating calls
of flight-weary rangeless birds
insects
diswinged multisexual
frogs
brown and white
bears mixed
into ones that can swim
but cannot haul out to live
to hear the
broom sweep up
debris and bone
abandoned changes
clang their final bells again
choice a strait not straight
hemmed in by fire
we will be old when
the elephants disappear
From Issue Five
ANNA M. WARROCK’s latest book, From the Other Room, is the Slate Roof Press Chapbook Award winner. Besides appearing in The Sun, The Madison Review, Harvard Review, and other journals, her work is anthologized in Kiss Me Goodnight, women writing on childhood mother-loss, a Minnesota Book Award Finalist. Her poems have been choreographed, set to music, and inscribed in a Boston area subway station. She has held seminars on understanding grief and loss through poetry.