Grass-stained tights under backyard orange tree.
Honey blossom scent so thick it sticks to my hands.
I know the sandbox is near, and my father
on the lawn behind our milk-white house
where birds of paradise guard the door.
Sarah Bokich's work has appeared in Timberline Review, Cloudbank, Pacifica Literary Journal, and others, and her chapbook Rocking Chair at the End of the World was published in 2017 by Finishing Line Press. Her poem "Man or Mouse" was nominated for Best New Poets 2022. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.