Dawn – Here

by Susan R. Williamson

I know this spell
of silence
will be broken.

Small songs.
Sparrow, wren, finch.

Inverted nuthatch
humming as he beak-tests
bark, cycles his first
promising
light-bathed branch.

Susan R. Williamson’s work has appeared in in Lucid Oona, Lumina, Lagniappe, Three Candles, Streetlight, and The Virginia Quarterly Review and has been nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. Williamson serves on the board of the Charlottesville Writing Center, the advisory board of Streetlight Magazine as an editor-emeritus, and as associate publisher at Tupelo Press.