In the Plum 

What do I call 
these small  

                        brown birds 
                        tumbling past 

whose flight 
I mistook 

                        for wind-
                        blown leaves?

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Twila Newey received her M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. She was a finalist for the 2019 Coniston Prize at Radar Poetry and won honorable mention in the 2019 JuxtaProse Poetry Contest. You can find her poems in many journals including Green Mountains Review, Ruminate, and Summerset Review. Twila is a poetry editor at Psaltry & Lyre. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.