Donna Hilbert
Donna Hilbert’s latest book is Threnody, from Moon Tide Press, 2022. Enormous Blue Umbrella is forthcoming from Moon Tide in late 2024. Work has appeared in Cultural Daily, Gyroscope, Rattle, Sheila-Na-Gig, ONE ART, Vox Populi, and anthologies including The Poetry of Presence volumes I & II, The Path to Kindness, The Wonder of Small Things, and I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing.
Grace
after Ellen Rowland’s No Small Thing
It’s no small grace
preparing the coffee pot,
then stepping out
in morning dark
to stand beneath a palm,
and listen
for osprey’s
high-pitched song,
then return in rising sun
to coffee, hot, to fill
the waiting cup, and drink.
It’s no small grace
to brace ones’ self
with simple pleasure
before the day goes wrong.
