Hummingbirds peck

an empty birdfeeder,

            tasting silicone. Early

sunlight lilts yellow

and broad across

kitchen counter.

            A mayfly, lone

blemish on white

wall, stretches

            five legs thin

as pencil lead, lays

no mark. Your memory,

frost curled taut into dying

            grass, softens

with the day’s progress.

And a season

            inches

inconstantly forward.

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Caleb Jagoda talks in aphorisms until those closest to him demand he stop—but hey, you know what they say: Buy the ticket, take the ride. Caleb is a poet, journalist, and MFA candidate at the University of New Hampshire, where he works as managing editor for Barnstorm Journal. His work has appeared in Blue Earth Review, Polaris Literary Magazine, and Down East Magazine. He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.