Home Movie
by Samantha Malay
published in The Path of Birds: Poets on the Rise (Flying Ketchup Press 2023)
ISBN-13 978-1970151404
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1970151404

barefoot
she steps
from palm frond shadows
to ocean waves

empties coffeepot
on campground grass
swats at the camera
with an old kitchen towel

a thousand miles north
his freckled arms
gather dry alfalfa
and their children search for eggs
in the chicken coop