A Small Boast

Rainwater pooled

in a stump’s tiny depression:

the sipping Frosted Elfin

sees her two wings double.

Dressed in tweed surely

too hot for this June day,

she seems not to know

the mysteries.

Her heart cannot doubt;

it resists bludgeoning,

its strength tensile

with exquisite fragility.

She has places to go.

Her wind dance stretches

like history

and where she cannot see.

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Taylor Hagood is a writer currently living in south Florida whose publications include the biography/true crime, Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend, and fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in such journals as A-Minor Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, and The Rumpus.