Every Day Has Something in It (Title from “Everything That Was Broken” by Mary Oliver) not just the first glow of hope in the east golden sky becoming a canvas of stone-washed blue not just birds who busy the sky mindful only of the task at hand not just the sheep, the turtle, the tulip in azure sky sun pausing as noon’s keystone not just meadows garlanded with daisy and vetch fitted with thistle and cricket not just the creek bank seeded with mink and crawdads and hill’s dead ash tree the flicker covets not just fresh-laid eggs that warm chilled hands the scent of sweet clover spilling into lungs not just the sun descending through frescoed clouds toward dusk’s invitation to lightning bugs not just platoons of bats heralding night while Venus wakes under indigo sheets
Nancy K. Jentsch’s poetry appears in Eclectica, EcoTheo Review, Soul-Lit and numerous anthologies. In 2020, she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, was published in 2017 and her writer’s page on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/
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