Life Cycle – a poem by Ruth Chad

Life Cycle
 
Each second an unveiling
rich black tuber
 
coaxed 
into thin green air
 
red-winged blackbird
trilling in bleached bullrushes
 
her eggs    will break
and the nest     fall into dust

Ruth Chad is a psychologist who lives and works in the Boston area.  Her poems have appeared in the Aurorean, Bagels with the Bards, Connection, Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England, Constellations, Ibbetson Street, Montreal Poems, Muddy River Poetry Review, Lily Poetry Review, Amethyst Review, Writing in a Woman’s Voice and Poetry Super-Highway. Most recently, a poem has been published in Voices of the Earth: The Future of the Planet III. Her chapbook, The Sound of Angels, was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2017. Her forthcoming book, In the Absence of Birds will be published by Cervena Barva Press in 2024. Ruth was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2021.