Mary Ellen Talley

Wiped Out by Caring

White wind turbines,
this rolling pasture of spires,

each with its trinity of wings
circling a clock face of sky,

forgiving the birds
their deaths

for coming too close.

Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have been published in Banshee, Beir Bua, CIRQUE, Ekphrastic Review, and The Plague Papers, as well as in other journals and anthologies. Her poems have received three Pushcart nominations and her chapbook Postcards from the Lilac City was published by Finishing Line Press. Currently residing in Seattle, WA, she devotes herself to poetry following a long career as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in Washington State Public Schools.