MOMENT

The day she died
a redbreast hopped
through the open door
in stilled December,
inquiring near
with little confident bounce,
starting
my first tear.

Alastair Macdonald

Muise, D.A. “Some Nova Scotian Poets of Confederation” Dalhousie Review, Volume 50, Number 1, 1970 https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/59368/dalrev_vol50_iss1_pp71_82.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y