Bird feeder

Editor’s note: In honor of National Poetry Month, poems through May 16 have been selected from books released in 2020 and ’21 by Texas authors.

Bury me without a

casket. I wish to become the nutrients for a watermelon,

or maybe a sunflower. My seed will be consumed by curious birds, and in many ways

I will fly.

From “Cleavage” by Diamond Sanders