The Scarlet Tanager by George Held

Or, “Teenager,” as we used to call it:
how long has it been since I’ve seen this
summer beauty in the canopy of a fir
and hushed myself in mid-sentence in awe
of nature’s fearsome abundance in a bird?…



George Held, an 11-time Pushcart nominee, has poems currently in Jerry Jazz Magazine, Untold Stories, Blue Unicorn, and Neuro Logical (Ireland). This poem featured in Red Eft Review today is among his forty new poems about birds. He writes from NY.