Lily
sits on a park bench.
Pigeons know her.
They cluster… fight… peck.

The children recognize her too:
the one who feeds the pigeons.
Lily giggles, opens her purse,
sets it on the ground.

“She’s crazy,” the children taunt.

Pigeons though, coo, bob…
fly into her purse
filled with sky.

Judy DeCroce is a poet / flash fiction writer and animal lover. She has been published in Pilcrow & Dagger, Amethyst Review, The Sunlight Press, Cherry House Press- Dreamscape:An Anthology, and many others. Judy is a professional storyteller and teacher and lives and works in upstate New York with her husband, writer/artist Antoni Ooto.