Caught. Lifted.
1
Between the screen
and its closed window
wind buffets a grey moth
against glass and wire.
2
I place the dead moth
on the porch railing,
a small offering
the wind accepts.
Martha Christina lives in Bristol, RI, where she often visits the Coggeshall Farm Museum. She is a frequent contributor to Red Eft Review, and her work has also appeared in earlier issues of Star 82 Review, Crab Orchard Review, and the Tiny Seed Pollinator Project, among others.
See more of her work in 9.4 and 9.3 and 9.3 and 9.2 and 9.2 and 8.2 and 8.2 and 7.4 and 7.3 and 7.2 and 6.3 and 6.3 again