Against Isolation

STEVE WILSON

March 16, 2020

Late afternoon,

at the backyard 

feeders, a few

early spring song-

birds gather and

hurry – oaks to 

woodpile, from fence

to windowsill – 

as if distance

were a belief 

traced with their wings,

landscape some thought

motion now by 

flight revealed.

STEVE WILSON has published poems in journals and anthologies nationwide.  He is the author of five collections of poetry, the latest entitled The Reaches (2019). He teaches at Texas State University.