My poem “Cartography” is now available at Orange Blossom Review. The poem was written after a visit to the Museum of Natural History in Rome last summer. As often happens with poems, everything fell into it from all sides.

"Cartography"

There are maps of knowing and unknowing.

Seven thousand species of bird
locked in a glass cabinet,

brightly colored males
& unpretentious females.

Almost every living thing on Earth
has already perished.

My daughter carries a dogeared copy of Maus
in her backpack.

I have questions.

She has questions.