COLD SHINGLE
by Taylor Graham
The moon is gathering low tide.
See the scraps of ocean litter
salt-waved to mysterious shapes
and beached here: this driftwood
spun in the sea's green pirouette.
A young girl walks the tide line
in a long wool coat, impervious
to time and weather. No, frail
as flowers of a homestead field
fronting the flow of a city.
Art by
Jane
Anderson
Taylor Graham lives in
Somerset, California. Taylor's collection An Hour in the Cougar's Grace (Pudding
House, 2000) received a Pipistrelle Best of the Small Press Award. Recent
publications have been in The Chattahoochee Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry
International, Yankee to name a few. Taylor is also a volunteer
search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada, and she helps her husband
(a retired wildlife biologist) with his bird projects.
July - August - September
- 2002 , page
40.
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