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Ditched
Sarah M. Brownsberger

Older, taller, stronger, male,
He pants in his zeal
To leave me behind,
All knees and heels
As he pumps the pedals.

Lungs burning, tears oozing,
I reach a clearing and give up
And notice a Monarch
Poised on milkweed. Song
Sparrows thrill. I dart my hand

Past thorns for berries.

—
Sarah M. Brownsberger is a poet, essayist, and Icelandic-English translator. Her poems have appeared in Salamander, Poetry East, The Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Field, and many other journals.

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