Wayne Lee
chorus of starlings in the Douglas fir - then they take flight and - silence.
shadows from the old Ponderosa pine move across the Mule deer tracks.
Wayne Lee (wayneleepoet.com) lives in Santa Fe, NM, where he teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His collections include Doggerel & Caterwauls: Poems Inspired by Cats & Dogs, and Twenty Poems from the Blue House (with his wife, Alice Lee), published by Whistle Lake Press, and Vortex, forthcoming from Red Mountain Press.
Photo by Naomi M. Judd
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