Adult Bald Eagle flying above downtown St. Paul and over the Mississippi River (Photo: Derek Bakken/Flickr CC)
On the south shoreline
of the Mississippi
in Saint Paul
one black eagle
breaks the tree line
pins down two o’clock
on the last day
of an encroaching decade
drops down like New Year’s ball
scatters river gulls
like rough confetti
over cobalt
currents
Donna Isaac, poet/teacher, lives by a Minnesota pond with her husband Matt. She works through the League of Minnesota Poets to promote literary events across the Twin Cities communities and continues to write and publish. Her chapbooks include: Tommy (Red Dragonfly Press); Holy Comforter (Red Bird Chapbooks); and Persistence of Vision (Finishing Line Press). Her full published collection of poetry is Footfalls (Pocahontas Press), and another full-length book, In the Tilling (Finishing Line Press), is out in 2025. donna@donnaisaacpoet.com
