Extinction Without a thought, I gazed out the kitchen window to watch the gathering of winter birds at the feeders. I haven’t had a visitor in weeks, yet I can expect dark-eyed juncos and hairy woodpeckers to set caged suet & seeds in motion, hour by hour, until watery blue shadows fall upon the thickening snow.
M.J. Iuppa’s fifth full length poetry collection is The Weight of Air from Kelsay Books, May, 2022, and a chapbook of 24 100-word stories, Rock. Paper. Scissors. from Foothills Publishing in 2022. For the past 33 years, she has lived on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Check out her blog: mjiuppa.blogspot.com for her musings on writing, sustainability & life’s stew.
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