Auspice 18
24 again off to a meeting.
She burns sage
in an abalone shell
to draw the sickness out.
They roost
in a pine behind the cabin.
I wish I could tell you
but,
you found a rabbit’s
headless body
gifted on the door mat.
Summer J. Hart
About Summer Hart
Summer Hart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer living in Cold Spring, New York, a Hudson River town on the traditional land of the Munsee Lenape. Her written and visual artworks are influenced by folklore, superstition, divination, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is the author of Boomhouse (2022, The 3rd Thing Press) and the micro-chapbook, Augury of Ash (2020, Post Ghost Press.) Her poetry can be found in Waxwing, The Massachusetts Review, Northern New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.