Staci Halt holds an MFA from Lesley University and is an MA candidate in English at the University of Massachusetts. She teaches at Lasell University and lives near Boston.

Soft

by Staci Halt

At night coyotes comb the Bronx
     for careless strays. In Harlem

backward-kneed blue herons slurp
     baby turtles in the algaeic shallows
of a concrete pond. I turn to you


and say, I’m not adapting.
     You say, listen to the presentation.
Pet the beaver pelt the park ranger’s laid out.
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