Poetry
FALL 2021Bosque
by ANNE HAVEN MCDONNELL
Owl-lit, dappled
draped over
a tunnel of branches
which drops
the day, the clench
opening now to green.
Hard-studded hills
close their eyes
and drink. Now hush
now haven, ribbon
where the elk bed down
where we too unravel,
where leaves rise up
in loose applause,
in mended light,
saying come, come.
Anne Haven McDonnell
Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and teaches as an associate professor in English and creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has been published in Orion, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Living with Wolves was published by Split Rock Press in 2020. Anne holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and helps edit poetry at Terrain.org.