<1 minutes of reading
If we forget about shouting,
Hello, at neighbors,
neighbors yawning
opening windows to yell
back, How are you
holding up? while their
oldest daughter waves
madly at Little Girl, all seems
normal, just as all is
normal later as Little Girl
and I later lean into
windows that overlook
our marsh, watching
mergansers build nests,
excited to have these novel
neighbors—soon merganser
chicks that we’ll say Hello
to through glass.
Sean Prentiss is the award-winning author of Finding Abbey: A Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, a memoir about Edward Abbey and the search for home. He and his family live on a small lake in northern Vermont, and he teaches at Norwich University and in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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