
This selection, chosen by Managing Editor Krista Cox, is from Ghost Moose by Margo Taft Stever, released by Kattywompus Press in 2019.
Menopause
The pool they build
in the backyard resembles
a sarcophagus.
A terrier owned
by a neighborhood widower
falls in and drowns.
A frog lives in the water element.
She fishes him out in spring
to take him to a local pond.
She plays tennis with women
half her age who talk
about carpools.
A hawk drops a beheaded, half-
eaten mouse on the front walkway,
most of its entrails missing.
The wrens make a nest
in magnolias in front of her house.
The cats guard the window
inspecting the birds’ work.
Cats tremble and chirrup; wings
knock the window.

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