REVELATION IN YORE
︎︎︎ Evan Gray
︎ Mar 3, 2026
stars eating rocks by numbers
below the fastest rapids his mother was
near a meadow an old woman in the road
waiting for visitors the church pews empty
then suddenly it is Sunday the family of the lost one cough
all service share trail camera pictures in the foyer
of the sanctuary in the woods of home all the time
tripping the flash off infected rhododendron roots
green turns to black there a dying robin nest
falling out on the fenceline when it gets below freezing
this morning put back by a woman
like the mother but not the mother
it couldn’t be baby bird with eyes
like a record playing or pile of sticks breaking
below the fastest rapids his mother was
near a meadow an old woman in the road
waiting for visitors the church pews empty
then suddenly it is Sunday the family of the lost one cough
all service share trail camera pictures in the foyer
of the sanctuary in the woods of home all the time
tripping the flash off infected rhododendron roots
green turns to black there a dying robin nest
falling out on the fenceline when it gets below freezing
this morning put back by a woman
like the mother but not the mother
it couldn’t be baby bird with eyes
like a record playing or pile of sticks breaking
Evan Gray is the author of Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars. He lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina.