
Photo credit: Ranney Campbell, 2025.

squash sock ankle boot bottomland
ill green spindle and straw spears
bur calf denim pantlegs
American bittern takes a stealth
toward the Western chorus
Originally published by Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem.
Photo credit: Robert So.

it will be so quiet
I will be able
to hear three sunflowers
in a straight glass vase
on my dining room table
picked up bare and painted
blue and sanded and ash
stained or calla
lilies, which they pull
like weeds, I hear
in Australia
Originally published by ONE ART.
Photo credit: Ranney Campbell, 2025.