Field Notes (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, April 22, 2022, feast day of Orthodox Great and Holy Friday, of Our Lady of Betharam (connection with Lourdes), of the Miraculous Lady (weeping Icon of Cicero, Illinois), and of (above) Saint Opportuna of Montreuil and Saint Senorina of Basto. Earth Day. Jewish calendar today continues Passover, and commemorates Splitting of the Red Sea. Image from here.)

Field Notes

To the bird out window, we will listen.

To the window needs cleaning, we will listen.

To clean touch of snow, we will listen. 

To snow’s slow form, we will listen.

To a forming word, not quite yet, we will listen.

Not quite perfect, or even close, we will listen.

Close to life, till pass, we will listen.

Pass as bird out window

leans to listen 

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Anne Kennedy’s The Arrivals; from Lisa Freedman's BreatheReadWrite, April 22, 2022.