Alive As The Virus Is Victorious
written by: Chad Norman
@ChadNormanPoet
The way
moving water
shimmers, others say
glimmers.
in the moving sun.
I see how
the “his & her” thing
happens, when it
comes to littering
their only planet.
Not only am I
in a relationship
with crows.
there is
a chipmunk too; I
never considered
myself a singer,
but when I call for
mainly a crow family
in that spot beside the flags
my other curious one
comes closer.
Each time I choose
to stop and sit on a stone
I speak to as well;
one day I know it
will welcome me
and I enjoy wonder again,
imagining him or her
enjoying the peanut
I threw to a spot
which was close enough
for my fear
to leave,
the peanut cracked
and what my hand once held
in that tiny happy stomach.
Chad Norman from Nova Scotia in 1992 won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award For Poetry. His most recent book is Parental Forest, AOS Publishing. His poem, The Shoulds, included in the Lunar Vagabond Collection, part of a time capsule scheduled for lift-off to the moon December 2024.
Latest posts by Chad Norman (see all)
- Small Parental Forest - February 11, 2023
- Snowflakes in A Famous Tail - April 21, 2022
- A Yule-Tide Poem - December 25, 2021
