Sarette Albin is a student in the Master of Liberal Studies program at Southern Methodist University. As a high school English teacher at an all-girls school in Dallas, she spends her days discussing literature and workshopping essays with her students (and hearing about the latest Taylor Swift gossip, of course). When not teaching or writing, Sarette can be found spoiling her dog rotten, going to the movies with her husband, or finding new places to explore.
poetry
The Flock
Sarette Albin, Southern Methodist University
Long before they arrived
We heard a murmur in the distance.
A growing din
An approaching thunder
The ripple of a thousand cries.
They came, then, in a wave
Rushing, roiling and dark,
Like a deep river eddy
Swirling fast among themselves.
They settled in trees
Making leaves from feathers black,
And seethed serpentine
over heads turned up in fear.
They came as a sign,
A wonder,
A force.
Sagging telephone wires
And darkening skies.
They stayed just long enough
To remind us again
Of the worlds waiting for us
Beyond the thin horizon line.
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