shadow-tailed squirrel
swift then still
inquisitive
house sparrow alights
on sunlit sidewalk
softly sounding
American lindens
touch heart-shaped leaves
clumped together
another sparrow
tricolored trilling
Lake Erie’s eastern shore
at my window
I consider
their unjust absence
© 2020, Connor Orrico
CONNOR ORRICO is a medical student with interests in global health, mental health, and how we make meaning from the stories of person and place we share with each other, themes that were explored in his publications in Headline Poetry & Press and Dreich Magazine.
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