Mark Strohschein
I am tired
and only want
to try
nothing more
than to
transmogrify
into sweet, sweet tones
the redwing blackbird owns,
or to ride
on delicate
winds of
the thrush’s song
wondering why
all along
I couldn’t just die
of a beautiful song.
Mark Strohschein is a Washington state poet who lives on Whidbey Island. His work is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, Cosmic Double, New Note Poetry and Plants and Poetry’s anthology, Plant People, Vol. 3. His poems have also appeared in Lips Poetry Magazine, In Parentheses, Dippity, Quibble and a poetry anthology, Dulce Poetica.