Rebecca Foust is the author of several poetry collections, including You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems (Blue Light Press 2026), Only, and The Unexploded Ordnance Bin. Her honors include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry. She divides her time between Northern California and Minnesota.

Photograph by William Harvey.

Serviceberry

by Rebecca Foust

I’ve entered the land of old people going mostly quietly
but still going, the ninety-year-old pastor

who survived several wars, the Spanish flu, and Covid
only to disappear beneath the new ice
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