“Wyoming Highway” by Aaron M. Moe

driving in storm winds 

gusting over 70 mph

in a glance 

i take in 

one crow

dead

two others

buffeting the wind

beaks burrowing headlong

into the blasts

wings cutting through that force 

somehow dropping it all 

save what’s necessary 

to hover— 

                  tethered to the feathers 

                                                      below

About Aaron M. Moe
He/Him/His

Aaron M. Moe is the author of the book of poems, exhalations (June, 2021), and two scholarly monographs—Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus (2019) and Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry (2014)—along with several chapters and articles on ecopoetics / zoopoetics. In 2015, he published a leaflet of aphorisms, Protean Poetics. His creative work can also be found in Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back (2020) and is forthcoming in the projects The Mountain: An Anthology and The Despairimentalist Manifesto.

He and his family live near the foothills of the Colorado Rockies where they hike, climb, run trails, and write.