Author: Anne Gruner - Written Tales

Anne Gruner

Anne C. Gruner’s poems have appeared in journals such as Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Plum Tree Tavern, with new work forthcoming in The Bamboo Hut. She writes from close attention to the natural world and the quiet moments where its fragility shows.

Villanelle to the Manatee

April 29, 2023

Anne Gruner stays with the manatee as it moves through murky water, sea grass gone, the surface troubled by runoff and the uneasy churn left by passing boats passing above.