Psycho Finch
The crazed finch that built
a nest of moss in the middle
of my hanging petunia basket
screams at the front
window every morning at daybreak
as if part rooster,
firing misguided warnings
at her own reflection.
On the inside, my son yells back.
Each stands respective ground
well into morning.
April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania and is working on her first several collections of poetry and an autobiographical novel on raising a child with Autism. Her work has appeared in Poetry Salzburg, Pyrokinection, Convergence, Ascent Aspirations, The Rainbow Rose, The Camel Saloon, The Applicant, The Mindful Word, Napalm and Novocain, Jellyfish Whispers, The South Townsville Micro Poetry Journal, The Weekender Magazine, Deadsnakes, Winemop, Daily Love, WIZ, and is forthcoming in Inclement, Poetry Quarterly, Decompression, Work to a Calm, and Windmills.
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