Narrated by Cheryl Heineman

After a Ellie Harold’s painting, “Birds Fly In” They seem raven-like, dark-winged, moving toward a tangled nest or like crows circling, seeking their own kind against a fog-ivory sky, the outline interleaved with comings and goings birds-eye cries flybys of brush-wings odors from mud hush-hush swigs of frenzied red but now, as I take my seat, light-blue sprigs nuzzle rough-edged gaps amid the white silence, and I see─ the birds are skylarks making merry in the painting and beyond the frame where joy wanders
BIO: Cheryl Heineman graduated in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. She also has a master’s degree in Jungian Psychology and has published three collections of poetry: Just Getting Started, something to hold onto, and It’s Easy to Kiss a Stranger on a Moving Train.