Neca manages and lives on a cattle ranch in South Georgia, she
says, and can be reached at maria@sowega.net.






Updraft (tanka)

without a flutter
white-tipped wings
ride the updraft-
joined by spiraling cinders,
once your love letters




stillness
among the cat-tails-
a blue heron

watching the creek
swollen by the heavy rain,
the sand bank shifts

more starlings settle
to bend the sapling lower-
tree poems in the sand












haiku

seven crows
their backs to the wind-
all but one







scattered feathers- all that remain of the wild turkey



shadowed sun- on the dock a fish gasping



Long Gone


near my town an excavation of a Creek village; pottery shards and arrowheads cover the fields, so many artifacts- nobody around here ever met an Indian



Neca Stoller


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