Afternoon Walk
Are you dying? I asked the bird
on the sidewalk. No, he said,
I forgot where the wind is. But
are you dying? I asked as the
bright kernel of his eye dimmed.
Fredric Koeppel
Fredric Koeppel has had poems published in a variety of print and online journals, including North Stone Review, Iowa Review, Many Mountains Moving and Vox Poetica. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee, and