Moan and Low

starlings
slice dull low sky

hackberries
gather at someone’s fence

winter pansies
lean in to listen

cement steps
catch my knees

Ann’s arm
“I’ve never seen you like this”

I bet
you’ll never catch me crying

starlings
what have I gone and done

Jax blows
a kiss from a truck window

catches me crying
what have I gone and done

Lisa L. Moore is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her writing has been awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation Award, the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, and the Art/Lines Juried Poetry Prize, and recognized as a Split This Rock Poem of the Week. She lives in Austin, Texas.