Umbrella
A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose


Mark Jackley

is the author of three chapbooks and the full-length collection There Will Be Silence While You Wait.

He lives in Sterling, Virginia.


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In Her Ninetieth Year
She Becomes a Great Blue Heron

Not for the first time, she steps out of her body
gingerly to wade
into the cool black waters
of the Great Peace.

She stands in feathery silence.

Judging by the light,
dawn is almost here.



 
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