The new calves
are growing stiff
from the wetness of birth,
and old men
come running across the fields
asking,
who killed our
apple-blossom time?
I say to them,
surely dead leaves
can’t grow in your pockets now.
Ethel Mortenson Davis of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin has had six books of poetry published. Her latest book is A Letter on the Horizon's Poem. The Wisconsin Library Association named Under the Tail of the Milky Way Galaxy an "Outstanding Book of Poetry by a Wisconsin Poet" in 2018.