Rooftop Poetry Club - Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner

Bio:
Jonathan Skinner edits the review ecopoetics and Field Books, teaches Environmental Studies at Bates College and lives in Bowdoinham, the tick capital of Maine. His Political Cactus Poems are available through Palm Press. His manuscript Wetlands, written in the Tifft Farm Nature Preserve, is looking for a home.

Poems:

Myrtle Warbler
Dendroica coronata

loose change twisting the fader
the volume rises or drops
trills another nice day its
gregarious as junco sidles

not too tightly wound the clock
masked general sits up lowers
a yellow spot rising svit
in its pine tree arabesque

floats an inverted U mid
specks of troubadour pollen
arriving early leaves late
bayberries myrtle poison

ivy's accurate hawthorne
swallows the still marsh surface
lifting squadrons loops of light
sidl seedl seedl husks