for Dorothy Holley
Late afternoon,
stopped the car to watch
6 sparrows
splashing in a shallow pool
on the warped red brick
in our alley,
the day after the thaw.
-- Barbara Alsko
Barbara Alsko lives in Dormont. She's an English teacher and member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshop, at Carlow University. Many writers featured in Chapter & Verse are guests of Prosody, produced by Jan Beatty and Ellen Wadey. Prosody airs every Tuesday at 7 p.m. on independent radio, WYEP 91.3 FM.
