Winter Feeding
by Martha Christina
My aunt
(newly
widowed)
hangs suet
in the shade
to keep it fresh
and tempting.
She knows
which birds
prefer
cracked corn,
which eat only
thistle seed.
She keeps
five feeders
filled and
free of ice.
All this
for a bit
of company.
“It’s lonely
without him,”
she writes,
her delicate script
like bird tracks on snow.
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Martha Christina is a frequent contributor to Brevities: A Mini-
Mag of Minimalist Poems. Other short work appears in recent
issues of Four and Twenty, and her longer poems appear or are
forthcoming in the Aurorean, Avocet, Common Ground Review,
The Orange Room Review, and Verse Wisconsin.
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My aunt
(newly
widowed)
hangs suet
in the shade
to keep it fresh
and tempting.
She knows
which birds
prefer
cracked corn,
which eat only
thistle seed.
She keeps
five feeders
filled and
free of ice.
All this
for a bit
of company.
“It’s lonely
without him,”
she writes,
her delicate script
like bird tracks on snow.
____________________________
Martha Christina is a frequent contributor to Brevities: A Mini-
Mag of Minimalist Poems. Other short work appears in recent
issues of Four and Twenty, and her longer poems appear or are
forthcoming in the Aurorean, Avocet, Common Ground Review,
The Orange Room Review, and Verse Wisconsin.
◄ Previous page Apple Valley Review, Spring 2012 Next page ►
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Apple Valley Review:
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 7, Number 1
(Spring 2012)
Copyright © 2012
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 7, Number 1
(Spring 2012)
Copyright © 2012
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
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