"Maiden Voyage" by Sara Cosgrove

In honor of the arbitrary hierarchy

I am pleased to announce that,

even though we are lost at sea

with no butcher no baker no candlestick maker,

we can explore newer, drier lands to 

scrape linoleum

dig for time capsules

hunt for books we should’ve read years ago

about regal moons and amethyst mountains

to see what we missed 

because we didn’t understand…

The birds in their nests

with their blue eggs

and blue wings 

sing their best songs

for the conquerors.

Sara Cosgrove is an award-winning journalist and poet living with disabilities. Her poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in Roi Fainéant, Poetry Ireland Review, The Seventh Quarry, Meniscus, Osiris, Notre Dame Review, Gargoyle, Great River Review, Frogpond (Haiku Society of America), Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Under the Basho, San Antonio Review, ONE ART, In Parentheses, Panoply, Sparks of Calliope, and Unbroken. She has worked as an editor for 15 years and has studied in the United States, Cuba, and France.