Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and enjoy a Poetry Per Diem each day for the month of April!
Today’s poem is from Adrienne Rich’s book of poems titled Midnight Salvage.
For an Anniversary
The wing of the osprey lifted
over the nest on Tomales Bay
into fog and difficult gust
raking treetops from Inverness Ridge on over
The left wing shouldered into protective
gesture the left wing we thought broken
and the young beneath in the windy nest
creaking there in their hunger
and the tides beseeching, besieging
the bay in its ruined languor
This book can be found in the Island Free Library collection, upstairs under call number 811.54 RIC.
Stay tuned for another poem tomorrow!