Early Birds

The woman sits on her porch 
with a journal while looking to her front yard. 
She sees robins. 

They must be looking for worms,
she thinks.
The robins look back at her, 

hopping intermittently as they wander. 
She must be looking for worms,
they think.

Gaven Lover

Gaven Lover’s poems have been published in the Iowa Review, the Sonora Review, Eunoia Review, and Lyrical Iowa. She also dreams of one day holding a goose.

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