Locke, Calif.

In this patch of Delta, grapes and blackberries
Loop through fig trees. Everything ripens
At once by the river; light races

To feed each thrush, jay, finch & fox.
On land where a farm was.
Oh, wonderful wilding.

Alexa Mergen

 

Alexa Mergen lives on a boat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and has also lived in cities and small towns in California, Michigan, Nevada and West Virginia. Her poems appear in numerous journals including Inlandia, Turtle Island Quarterly and Virginia Quarterly Review.

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