from “voidance of birds”

Cross the mossy

charnel house

a wood grouse

wing-beats

the freshly sodden ground

Rainfall from fall rain

has transmuted soil to mud,

and my footsteps to a

dull thump, pucker—

there, an iridescence flutters

in the branches above:

the shimmer of jay-feather

or batwing, cutting thru

the evening air

What to make

of all these f’lighted creatures?

Hunter Lewinski is a writer and musician based in Madison, WI. His work primarily focuses on literary history in the Romantic and Modern periods, but other areas of interest include visual and sound poetry, practices of poetic citationality, and the history of the American Midwest. Hunter’s writings have appeared previously or are forthcoming in The Mantle, Riggwelter, and Fugitives & Futurists.

Poetry board, Fall 2016 to Spring 2018; Coeditor in chief, Fall 2018 to Spring 2020