Weather Report

By Meredith Davies Hadaway

A courteous morning—fog
blurring the treetops, a soft
leap from dreams to this.

No breeze, no birds—just
the cars on the highway, yawning
and yawning.

Each day an eagle waits
on the same piling for me
to wonder why.

War and wilderness, one
destroys us, even as we kill
the other.

Raindrops left on the window—
a message in braille reads: This
storm missed you.

Meredith Davies Hadaway has three published collections of poetry from Wordtech—including At the Narrows, winner of the 2015 Delmarva Book Prize for Creative Writing. Her work has also appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Harpur Palate, New Ohio Review, Rhino, Salamander, Southern Poetry Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among other journals. Hadaway was the Sophie Kerr Writer-in-Residence at Washington College, spring, 2022.