River

Night by the River

By DOROTHY HARTZ

I stop

To drink

In the full moon

In the water.

It’s here as if waiting—

A heron.

I have a good look

before it unlocks the moment

before it unlands

before it sweeps the velvet sky

with sharp grey feathers.

I Am

By PATRICIA KETT

I am a red spiral wolf sigh

in a ’57 Thunderbird.

I am the river winding past

a flowering pear tree

moving the loss of a child

to peace.

This week’s Celebrations poets:

Dorothy Hartz is a writer and retired teacher of English currently living in Fremont Center, NY. Her poems and articles have appeared in local publications since 1997 when she returned to the Upper Delaware River Valley after 30 years away. She is a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective and has been a grant facilitator for Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

Writing has been love, obsession, play, and escape for over 55 years for Patricia Kett. To pay the bills, she has been a cosmetician, school bus driver, nurse, computer analyst and hypnotherapist. She is a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective. She has been a mother, grandmother and soon to be great-grandmother.