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.
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.