Cara L McKee

Largs, Scotland

Cara L McKee is a Yorkshire born poet living on the West coast of Scotland. Her poetry has been published in places including Gutter Magazine, The Interpreter's House, Dodging the Rain, Severine Magazine and Lucent Dreaming. Her chapbook is First Kiss (Maytree Press, 2020). You'll find her online at http://skeletonarchitecture.blogspot.com/

Date poem written: 2nd June 2020

The Heron

We were, all of us 

out for our mandated 

walk, feet encrusted

with garlic dust, my 

girl clutching stellar 

bundles of flowers 

to make ART mummy 

when over there, there 

between the trees, there 

where the Noddleburn

thinks of becoming 

the sea, a heron 

shifted its ragged

self, weighing its wings.

I stopped, watched while the 

kids bickered their way 

on, so only I 

saw as the heron 

leapt, claiming the air.