Visitation by Victoria Twomey

so much is expected

of the little red cardinal

winged intermediary

between two worlds

arriving in the spring tree

in front of the blue house

a feathered priest who knows

there are many hoping to believe

and so, he sits for a moment

so that someone might look upon him

and sense something real

has touched them from afar

a moment later, fliting to the neighbor’s fence

for his next visitation

releasing one beloved ghost

and welcoming another

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Victoria Twomey is a poet and an artist. She has appeared as a featured poet at venues around NY, including The Poetry Barn, Barnes & Noble, and Borders Books. Her poems have been published in several anthologies, in newspapers and on the web, including Sanctuary Magazine, BigCityLit, PoetryBay, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, The Tipton Poetry Journal, Verse-Virtual, and the Agape Review. Her poem "Pieta" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.