Snow melts like everything else
when redwings meet in a marsh.
One day, a squawk in a tree—
then,
immediately, mechanically—
spring erupts all at once.
A raucous crowd redwings appears—
balance on bouncing, bending cattails.
Teetering, twittering—
scarlet marks pompously puffed out—
blackbirds discuss
what they usually discuss these days.
T.N. Turner lived his 1st half-life in Wisconsin; 2nd half-life in Minnesota; living final half-life in China. If that seems to accumulate to more than one life, well, it feels that way. Over 35 years, Mr. Turner says he developed a unique, deceptively simple, direct, non-synthetic, non-boring, thought-provoking, entertaining, home-grown style of poetry he calls “Organic Naturalism.”
His poetry appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review; MacGuffin; Chattahoochee Review; Soundings East; Plainsongs; Wisconsin Academy Review; The Chaffin Journal; Texas Review; The Portland Review; Green Hills Literary Lantern; Main Street Rag; Barstow & Grand; Stone Poetry Quarterly; Wilderness House Literary Review; Orchards Poetry Review; Headlight Review; among others.