Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire
This week’s poem is by David Moreau of Wayne.
His Wife Invites Him to the Brownfield Bog
By David Moreau
Red-winged blackbirds
glideacrossthemarsh.
Redstarts, chickadees, gnatcatchers and veeries flit
and chirrup their myriad tunes.
Mosquitoes pierce and deerflies bite.
Royal fern, dogwood, meadowsweet and winterberry
edge the dirt road. Red maple and speckled alder
cluster in the sedges.
He asks her the names of everything:
leopard frog, green frog, wood frog, bullfrog,
least flycatcher and painted lady butterfly.
He wonders does she get tired of him asking?
A peanut butter sandwich, an oatmeal raisin cookie
for each of them. She breaks a leaf of wintergreen
and holds it to his nose.
The ground soft, their footsteps careful,
water lilies and cranberries abundant.
Damselflies flicker blue at their hands.
She calls pshsh pshsh pshsh
and looks expectantly
into the cluttered branches of the silver maple
where a dozen pair of tiny black eyes
dart back at them amazed.
Dennis Camire can be reached at denniscamire@hotmail.com
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