Amy Cuneo

The birds are busy now

Spring (like grief) is

something to sit in

let it sprout around you


The birds are busy now.

But you are slowly coming into you skin

like a snake un-shedding

you are slipping into that

paper-thin-thing

how it softens with your warmth

how it fits the length of you

an opening-a gaping eye at the end of you


Now you tremble

Now you carve the grass in two

leaving the place that you were

Moses through the sea