Marjorie Sadin

crane

 

 After so many years,
 I am struck by the chirping of birds
 in the woods like tremolos of flutes.
 Easily startled,
 you astonish me.
 Your voice is like the sound of a tree falling.
 My voice is wind in the grass.
 And that crane winging across the water—
 a harbinger of what will be. 
   
  

Marjorie Sadin is a nationally published poet.  She has five books of poems in print including a full length book, Vision of Lucha about struggle and survival, love, death, and family. Recently, Marjorie published a new chapbook, In the Closet. She lives and reads her poetry in the Washington DC area.