Sonja Kosler
Sonja Kosler is a retired broadcast and print journalist. She lives on the shore of a small west-central Minnesota lake. Her poetry has been published locally, regionally and nationally. She has been awarded several work/study grants. She is also a shamanic practitioner, an award-winning photographer and oral tradition storyteller.
Resting Place
My family will speak in duty
words
muted by the decision-making weight.
Burial or cremation.
Caskets, vaults, urns.
Chapel, synagogue, home.
They will dismiss my desires
as the outcome of a
diminished...
Perspective
My universe
is nothing
more nor less
than one red feather
on the wing
of a blackbird perched
on last year’s cattail.