Birch leaves flutter
like the innumerable
scraps of tattered prayer flags
tied to twisted Tibetan trees,
each one a prayer offering in
hope and supplication to an
indifferent god, like little
penitent hearts of silvergreen
moved when the wind
moves them
and sometimes when it
doesn’t
Copyright. Jamie Brown.
Jamie Brown’s writing has been widely published, including in Bay to Ocean: The Year’s Best Writing from the Eastern Shore. His The Delaware Bay: Poems was named Delaware Press Association’s Best Chapbook of Verse 2020. He founded The Broadkill Review and The Broadkill River Press. He has taught at GWU, Georgetown University, Wesley College,UD, and at the Smithsonian Institution. He was a Poetry Critic for The Washington Times. He lives and writes in Milton, Delaware.
