by Barbara Lydecker Crane
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Artwork: a paper collage by the poet. |
Flapping hard all day and night,
these herons grapple with their plight:
a large right wing distorts their flight.
Bi-coastal, Blue-states can be found
Virginia Beach to Provincetown,
San Diego to Puget Sound.
They have lost their rural southern range;
midwest statistics now look strange;
and poachers threaten further change.
Not yet in an endangered fate,
they step with slow and measured gait,
biding time. Blue-states wait.
Barbara Lydecker Crane won the Sonnet Crown category of the 2024 Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest, Honorable Mention in the 2024 Frost Farm Poetry Contest, and was twice a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Able Muse recently published her fourth collection, ekphrastic sonnets entitled You Will Remember Me.
Barbara Lydecker Crane won the Sonnet Crown category of the 2024 Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest, Honorable Mention in the 2024 Frost Farm Poetry Contest, and was twice a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Able Muse recently published her fourth collection, ekphrastic sonnets entitled You Will Remember Me.