toward my re-wilding

by Karen Neuberg

I was so tame 

no bars were needed.

I envied the field gone

to seed feeding the birds

in their migrations south. 

My attention became 

drawn to cycles

as I sowed myself into 

patches of meadow,

mingled memories 

in the soil of my years

until I found myself 

taking steps

across directions 

not mapped for walking.

Karen Neuberg lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she starts each day with poetry and coffee. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, PURSUIT (Kelsay Press, 2019) and the chapbook the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre, 2017) She holds an MFA from the New School and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East.