Things I Love on a December Morning
A poem by Shoshauna Shy

Things I Love on a December Morning

Those moments a new poem descends
on me like an owl with its talons out,
and as the words arrive, the owl grabs me
and keeps flying

How capable my hands look wearing
my late mother’s wedding band

Listening to “Song for the Asking”
on the radio while my husband drives
us 100 miles south, the melody
an eloquent skein of yarn winding itself
around all the decades of our marriage

Knowing the basic bone structure
of who I am that formed by the time
I was six years old is still who I am

and all the years I’ve lived
have not changed that

About the Author:

Shoshauna Shy is the founder of  the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program. Her poems have recently been published by Pinyon, Front Porch Review, Poetry South,  and RockPaperPoem.  One of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021, and another longlisted for the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2022. Her poems have been made into video, produced inside taxi cabs, and even decorated the hind quarters of city buses.

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