Rachel Marie Patterson
Seed Moon
(April)
Fine rain falls like seeds pinging on the roof.
In this season, their favorite, foxes feed on baby snakes.
All night, their moans rise at the edge of the city.
This morning, I am slow to rouse, my lungs full of sap.
A late frost has severed the sweet heads in my flowerbox.
Rachel Marie Patterson is the author of the chapbook If I Am Burning (Main Street Rag 2011). She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is now a Ph.D. candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. A recipient of a 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize, her recent work appears in anderbo.com, storySouth, Nashville Review, The Greensboro Review, Redivider, Fugue and elsewhere. She can be found on the web at rachelmariepatterson.com
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(April)
Fine rain falls like seeds pinging on the roof.
In this season, their favorite, foxes feed on baby snakes.
All night, their moans rise at the edge of the city.
This morning, I am slow to rouse, my lungs full of sap.
A late frost has severed the sweet heads in my flowerbox.
Rachel Marie Patterson is the author of the chapbook If I Am Burning (Main Street Rag 2011). She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is now a Ph.D. candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. A recipient of a 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize, her recent work appears in anderbo.com, storySouth, Nashville Review, The Greensboro Review, Redivider, Fugue and elsewhere. She can be found on the web at rachelmariepatterson.com
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