By Kevin McLellan

when i said that

her home wasn’t

mine: regret; my

child-room now

storage

for boxed things;

usually the sound

of passing cars

but now overhead

light aircraft

on a late winter’s

day or maybe

i am just breathing

unevenly.

Kevin McLellan—author of: Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient); Tributary; Hemispheres (resides at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center and other special collections); [box] (resides in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections); and Round Trip—makes videos as Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. https://kevmclellan.com