Poem by Stuart Dischell

LULLABY AND ELEGY


The red-tail hawk     
Riding an updraft


Studies the weeds
Where the vole peers


At the cleared place     
Ahead of its steps


En-route to         
A nest of bones
    
Now children    
Stay in your beds


Red tail hawks          
Are pretty not kind


Come winter         
We hide

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Stuart Dischell was born in Atlantic City, NJ. He is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days and the forthcoming Children With Enemies and the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey and the chapbook Standing on Z. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

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