Migrations

My brother understands the flocks
that embroider the sky
above the highways I travel,
and he knows what can be known
about how they find their flyways.

One hour from home
is Lourdes, an auspicious name
and steeple for an Iowa town
with just a bar, the church,
and a baseball diamond.

No miracles here.
No miracles,
just hospice meetings
and miles of 2-lane highway.

Hannah Carr-Murphy is a poet and musician from Black Hawk County, Iowa. Her work has appeared in Action, Spectacle and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and in anthologies from Mammoth Books, Alternating Currents, and Final Thursday Press. She recently completed a PhD in English with creative dissertation from Binghamton University.