It’s All Happening

by Sidney Bending, Margaret Rutley, and Michael Dylan Welch


First published in Presence #61, July 2018. First written by email in July of 2017.



snowy moon . . .

a puma mother paces

with my mother Sidney


grade one field trip

a white owl rubbernecking Margaret


winter drizzle—

at first we don’t see

the pudu by the fence Michael


icicle drips

on a giraffe’s long tongue Sidney


blizzard

the pachyderms

pack the barn Margaret


snow leopard tracks

in fresh snow Michael