Hearing
the tapping
on the tree 

I fail to see
the first red
tulip nodding  

at my feet
from last
night’s frost.

Bird in the Wood by Theodore Worozbyt

Theodore Worozbyt is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Alabama and Georgia Arts Councils. His books are Tuesday Marriage Death, The Dauber Wings, Letters of Transit, Smaller Than Death, Echo’s Recipe, and The Rhino Narrative. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Conjunctions, Epoch, The Kenyon Review, Pithead Chapel, Po&sie, and the anthology, Gracious: Poems from the 21st-Century South.

Published October 15 2025