First minute: The ailing seagull on the beach flops closer to death. Second: Both of your children ask what’s wrong. Whyzit? Whenwillit? Third: You consider lying to them, but decide not to go there. Once you start . . . Fourth: Never mind him, you say. Now the gull has become a male, guess why. […]
Margaret Koger
Margaret Koger is an educator with a writing habit. She lives and teaches in Boise, Idaho. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Juke Joint, Little Rose, Amsterdam Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her poem “Ripe Figs” was a 2018 finalist in the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize at the Heartland Review.