The wind blows through the trees
on an oboe, the fields unfurl
like sheet music—
the long fences the staff,
the crows on the line
the notes.
They are playing the song
of the rural, the farms:
the winding path,
the sheep beneath a blue spruce,
the cats hunting shrews,
Orion in the stars at night.
All of it is a wild orchestra:
The brown owls, the blue jays,
the southing geese calling.
Every new lamb
is a concerto in C
on trembling legs.
Kristin Roedell graduated from Whitman College, 1984, and U.W. Law School, 1987. Her poetry appeared in JAMA, Ginosko, and Crab Creek Review. She's authored two chapbooks: Girls with Gardenias (Flutter Press) and Night Circus (Legal Studies Forum) and a full length collection, Downriver (Aldrich Press.) Her website is at kristinroedell.wikidot.com