Jonathan Skinner
A Heron’s Nest
a flitter and flut aloft
the graak is sour
a bare bone in a dry place
green is my color
the pies in an eye
revolves a feather shade
the coolness scatters
inters needles dust
islands in the heat
The Place
someone once lived here
someone partly lived here
someone had lived here
someone sort of lived here
someone could have lived here
someone absolutely lived here
someone didn't live here
someone should have lived here
someone totally lived here
someone has lived here
someone briefly lived here
someone might have lived here
someone completely lived here
someone never lived here
someone will live here
someone quietly lived here
someone lives here
Jonathan Skinner's poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad Press, 2009) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics (www.ecopoetics.org), which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. Skinner also writes ecocriticism on contemporary poetry and poetics: his essays on the poets Ronald Johnson and Lorine Niedecker appeared recently in volumes published by the National Poetry Foundation and by
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