Sara Pirkle
Each Morning that May,
I sipped coffee on the cabin’s
screened porch and observed
a screech owl roosting calmly
in a worn cranny of an ancient oak
until one dawn she wasn’t there,
and in her absence, I knew
I had to leave my husband.
Sara Pirkle can often be found in her favorite coffeeshop in Tuscaloosa, playing board games with other University of Alabama professors. http://sarapirkle.com