Why I Love Tess Gallagher

Check out this new poem by Tess Gallagher from her book, From Dear Ghosts, published by Graywolf Press.

Choices

I go to the mountain side
of the house to cut saplings,
and clear a view to snow
on the mountain. But when I look up,
saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in
the uppermost branches.
I don't cut that one.
I don't cut the others either.
Suddenly, in every tree,
an unseen nest
where a mountain
would be.

--Tess Gallagher

It was featured today on Everse, a free service from Milkweed Editions (www.milkweed.org). She's reading on Oct. 12 in Minneapolis, so, you know. If you're in the area...