B.Z. Niditch- Three Poems

COUNTRYSIDE HAWKS

Hearing you are searching

for an exiled nest

like a slate roof vagrant

migrating with a seasoned destiny

but with no one but my ex

a Vermont ornithologist 

to take you in,

perhaps people think 

was a bit eccentric

wishing she was up

on the Evergreen

with his own calendar

and language,

perhaps will recognize you

by scavenger birds

jumping over hills

or at intersections

of the winding sky

but I am only a prayerful poet

who receives an anonymous

poison pen letter

from a callous neighbor

telling me my affections

should be put elsewhere

not on any bird branch

in her better crawl space

as my ex leaves me

for a veterinarian.

A SHELTER

A shelter of silence

behind the trees first light

it's spring vacation

and we're watching

a migrating bird nests

by twigs and motionless wings,

my friend Donna

has an evening agenda planned

full of charades

and whether asks me to play

my soprano sax

or on my jazz fiddle

Donna is drawing ink portraits

of me on a hammock

it's still a mind bender for her

to record my music poems

as insomniacs wake up

a Big Apple high rise

in Manhattan.

SPRING SKY

Waiting on dunes
near the shore's island ferry
of an ever fleeting
sail over the Atlantic
by the sighs mirror
of the sea and sun,
as you read my poetry
as mayflies are with me
sailing on windy clouds
across an ocean's tide,
as out of breath of a poet's words.

B.Z. NIDITCH is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer.

His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including: Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art; The Literary Review; Denver Quarterly; Hawaii Review; Le Guepard (France); Kadmos (France); Prism International; Jejune (Czech Republic); Leopold Bloom (Hungary); Antioch Review; and Prairie Schooner, among others. His newest poetry collection, "Everything, Everywhere," will be available from Penhead Press in September.

He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.