Gina Ferrara
The Tree with Three Nests
The year creaks forward
fledgling awkward,
stiff today though hardly atrophied,
or riddled with the burden of history,
fifty degrees colder than yesterday.
All the yellow leaves flurried
as cautionary, heart-shaped, left unraked.
Not one remains on the branch
a brittle pendulum,
acts of slight lacerations as it sways.
Bio
Gina Ferrara lives in New Orleans. Her poems have appeared numerous journals including Dovecote, The Poetry Ireland Review and Tar River Poetry. She has four poetry collections: Ethereal Avalanche (Trembling Pillow Press), Amber Porch Light (Word Tech Communications), Fitting the Sixth Finger (Kelsay Books) and Weight of the Ripened (Dos Madres Press).