Author: Sarah A. Etlinger

Givens

Issue 7 | Winter 2021 |

    The pair of house finches arrives again singing, topping the spruce which nudges into the swathes of a faded spring sky. Spring breaks—a given, heavy thing, like the leaden blue of the ocean. These colors, this wind, this song— these singular purposes— none of it keeps. Nor do the stars ever stretch beyond …