Loving you is like herding birds

circumferencing the world.

Vireo, redpoll, oriole fleeing

the freeze, winter with me.

Sex, feed, nest.

Irruptive intrusion.

Restless by spring.

Jane Rowen was born in Manchester, England, and lives in Southern California. She practiced securities litigation defending claims of large scale financial fraud and insider trading, and then became an enforcement attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission.