A gang of jays sack the feeder. Nearby, confounded squirrels squat, afraid to challenge such rapacity. Longing for fairness, to stave off the pain of futility, I straighten wall paintings, cut sweet William, coreopsis, poppies, arrange them in a blown glass vase. In a world riven with injustice, these actions, so inconsequential.
Leisha Douglas's poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Alembic, Big Muddy, Bridge Magazine, Corium Magazine, The Cortland Review, decomP, Euphony Journal, Five on the Fifth, Glint Literary Journal, Helix, The Midwest Review, Nonconformist Magazine, Poydras Review, Upstreet, and many other journals and magazines. A recent poem is anthologized in Corona City.
