Anchorage - Patricia LeBon Herb

[Larry Robinson]

Anchorage 

Seagulls cackle and cry
into the light of day and night

It's 2:30 am, we hear long sad  
piercing screams that cry us to sleep

Like a hundred lost kittens meowing 

We are new to Alaska, first timers here
just one day in

On the 8am news we hear that the
largest iceberg to date has broken off
the Antarctic shelf

Out the window we see people walking to work, a stray dog, a UPS truck drives by

Oh, when did we stop listening to the birds

We read that Moose have been seen walking on the streets of downtown Anchorage

	- Patricia LeBon Herb