Virginia Boudreau

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A billboard towers “Exercise Your Right!”

Overblown assault

rifle, ammunition coiled,

snake-like cools its heels

at the interstate’s crumbled rim.

 

Gears pop, engines drone

and I dream of Seurat blowing a raspberry:

spraying this pointillist’s glade

in a billion daubs of green.

 

Among all the spattered leaf dots,

dolloped petals: white, soft pink

and the purple redbuds,

a tiny nest dares

from a burgeoning branch,

frail eggs inside.

 

Further on, snowy egret wades

through mirrored ferns

and blackness.

Neck unscrolled, feathers ruffling,

she peers into the water, searching

for her own rebuttal.

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Biography: Virginia Boudreau is an emerging writer who makes her home in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a wide variety of international literary publications, both in-print and on-line. Some publication credits include: Palette Poetry, The Antigonish Review, Reckoning 7, Westerly, and The Last Stanza.