megan willome

Megan Willome is the author of Love and Other Mysteries, a poetry collection exploring Song of Solomon and the Mysteries of the Rosary. She’s also written The Joy of Poetry, a memoir, and Rainbow Crow, a picture book of form poems. Her day is incomplete without poetry, tea, a song, and a walk in the dark.

junco

From Douglas firs winding up, wayfaring

down the Guadalupe Mountains comes

kindness itself, the dark-eyed junco’s

song—a mother’s cry.

Good rocks hide her nest.

Inside her cup: leaves, grass,

someone’s else’s feathers,

three pale-blue eggs.

She cannot help herself.

She laments all she lays

down inside this fossil reef

risen taller than Texas.

If, in winter, you hear her sweet

no-hope notes, when only

weed-seed sustains, trill back

what the darkling thrush said.

Read Megan’s work and more in Solum Journal Volume VI: Doubt (forthcoming).