Issue Nineteen - Winter 2012

Heron

By Linda Back McKay

Morning
water color
mist muddled pond
whip-grasses
dark as pounded
metal. Water
quiet pigment,
dense as regret.

Light’s first
definition
sharpens planes,
body, neck,
feather, beak,
head and darting eye.
Step and step,
legs fold to un-
fold, leg and leg,
silver slice of fish
beneath.

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Copyright McKay 2012

Linda Back McKay is a poet, author and teaching artist with a special interest in motorcycles, unusual families and island living. Her books include Shadow Mothers: Stories of Adoption and Reunion (nonfiction), Ride That Full Tilt Boogie and The Next Best Thing (both poetry). www.lindabackmckay.com.

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