B. Lynne Zika's poem "The Last Sunday Morning I Spent in Alabama"
© 2022 B. Lynne Zika B. Lynne Zika ’s work has appeared in numerous literary and consumer publications, most recently published in Delta Poetry Review and forthcoming in Backchannels and Suburban Witchcraft. She is an artist, writer, and retired editor (poetry and closed-captioning). Awards include: Pacificus Foundation Literary Award in short fiction, Little Sister Award and Moon Prize in poetry, and Viewbug Top Creator Awards in photography. Website: https://artsawry.com/ . The Last Sunday Morning I Spend in Alabama My Willie has not seen a cardinal alight on a fence railing beside his morning chair and then, abruptly, take flight, the flash of crimson in the early air, a kind of promise—or reminder— that time turns the pages of Alabama days more slowly than in other places, a kinder consumption of our lives. The ways of moving through a day are gentler here, as if the edges of light have been sanded from ...