Astronaut

Miriam Sagan founded and runs the creative program at Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico. The author of over 25 books, she received the Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2010. She blogs at Miriam's Well http://miriamswell.wordpress.com.

"Nocturne" is from From: Seven Places in America: A Poetic Sojourn, Sherman Asher Press, fall 2012

Nocturne

loneliness whistles
with the tea kettle

and it is hard
not to feed the fawn
the doe with the cougar-bitten ear

snow
on the far ridge of mountain

raven is here, as expected
impossible to live
in a world without crows

when I was young
I suffered, wondering if you loved me

now ask the same of god.