In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to offer daily poetry during April.

Winter Hummingbird

From a chord of snow rimed branch,
spilling an octave of flakes,
a dark note sifts down.
The maestro, a wintering hummingbird,
bows with a whir of wings
to white applause.

© Millie Vetterlein

Late Winter Night

Going in moonlessness down this unlit path
elder animal intuition leads at leash end,
watchful where the shadows stir.
A paw on pine cone missed in strobe
alerts the ear.
All other sound is milk breath air
In dark feltness.

© Millie Vetterlein

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