Murmuration / Damian Ward Hey

When you go,
the moon turns to
old fruit,

fermenting,
saturating the land
with cider,

tasting of
delirium
and prayer.

Now that all is done,
I look up
in time to see

your face, drawn
in a moment of dusk,
by a thousand starlings.

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Damian Ward Hey has had poetry published in several places, including Poetry Pacific, Truck, and Cricket Online Review. More recently, his work has appeared in Madness Muse Press, Formidable Woman Sanctuary, Rye and Whiskey Review, and Happy Fukkaday 2 U (The Alien Buddha Press). Additional poems will soon appear in They’re Conspiring against the Alien Buddha; The Cajun Mutt Press; and the upcoming anthologies, Poets with Masks On (Ed. Melanie Simms); and Birth - Lifespan Vol. 1. (Pure Slush. Ed. Matt Potter). Damian Ward Hey lives on Long Island and is a professor of literature and theory at Molloy College.