I have
molded
this Maine
morning
into a smooth
glass swallow
for your sill,
to shore up
the sharp
clean cerulean
& remind you
of the real sky
& me.

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Image credit:Carmine Savarese
Sara Clancy
Sara Clancy

Sara Clancy is a Philadelphia transplant to the Southwest.  Her chapbook Ghost Logic won the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Editors Choice Award. Among other places, her poems have appeared in Off the Coast, The Linnet's Wings, Crab Creek Review, The Madison Review, Misfit Magazine, Avatar Review and Verse Wisconsin. She lives in the desert with her husband, their dog, two ordinary cats and a psychotic cross-eyed one.