There’s a Special Providence

Seth Wieck

January 19, 2021

in the fall of a pharaoh

whose falling arrow

falls fast past

a flying sparrow.

She weaves in her nest

a dead pharaoh’s

hair, O Lord, she

builds her nest

out of his reach. O Lord, 

she knits her nest high above his throne.

Seth Wieck's writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, the Langdon Review of the Arts, Tejascovido, and the Broad River Review where he won the Ron Rash Award in Fiction. He lives in Amarillo with his wife and three children, and teaches literature and writing at Boys Ranch High School.