Toast crumbs on the plate
And through the window
Crumbs the birds left
Outside the feeder
In the yard crumbs around
Little tree sleeping
Cut down by a neighbor
Sapling in the gully instead of
Leaves waving good-bye
To that day’s crumbs
That shine through the jet stream
Create ghosts of limbs
Lead us to Yalikavak’s boats
Doves cooing in HopeTown
Horses in the sand dunes
Crumbs of different lives
A crumb of you and you
And you and you
Take a taste, bite into the toast
Melted butter, boysenberry jam
Kristy Snedden
Kristy Snedden has been a trauma psychotherapist for thirty-plus years. She began writing poetry in August 2020 and found a second passion in life. She is currently a student at Phillip Schultz’s Writers Studio. She has work appearing or forthcoming in various journals and anthologies, most recently Book of Matches, Snapdragon, Door is a Jar and Power of the Pause Anthology. She reads and writes poetry to stay alive and engaged in our turbulent world. Her poetry is informed by her years working in the field of trauma, her love of words and play, and by her connection with nature. She loves hiking in the Appalachian mountains near her home and hanging out with her husband listening to their dogs tell tall tales.
