“The tradition of the poet / artist goes back at least to William Blake and his “Tyger.” Moore carries it on with her knock–out combo of verse and linocuts.”
~Carl Little in The Café Review, Spring, 2023
After the Splash
We step to the porch railing–
wine glasses in hand, Scrabble forgotten–
to spy a bird floundering in the cove,
dashing the sea with great, feathered
downbeats, almost obscured by the spray.
It’s a bald eagle and my heart thrashes with it.
I’m ready to canoe to the rescue,
my husband paddling, me leaning
over the bow, poised to pluck a frantic,
flapping, full-grown eagle out of the sea
in my bare arms. Its wing span is wider
than I am tall, its beak a scimitar.
But the bald eagle doesn’t need me.
It settles onto the water, plump as a duck,
turns beak to shore, scoops the sea with
feathery palms, and climbs out on a rocky
shelf, dragging in one talon a fish,
huge and silvery in sunlight.
Leslie Moore
"No creature is beneath her notice, each has a story to tell, each is a kindred spirit, a teacher who informs her crafts."
~Kristen Lindquist, author of Tourists in the Known World: New and Selected Poems