Gale-force tangerines
Here lies a tangent,
brushed by assumption,
an assault of wind.
The sheep do not accept
our flock of five strangers,
strange at once to the land
and sensation of stillness.
Forward motion
halts
at the post hitch,
all while
the pasture path rewrites itself
on the recommendation
of a train station pamphlet.
Hailing from the coast of Maine, H. K. Talbert is an English major at Yale and the author of a collection of environmental poetry and oil paintings. Talbert's poems can be found in Cider Press Review and Prudence Dispatch as well as numerous anthologies from the Telling Room.
