What the nuthatch wants

is a seed – delicacy

held in a hull, oils

locked in to crack the distance –

season when sunflowers bloom.

Candice Stover lives on Mount Desert Island. Her two chapbooks of poems are “Holding Patterns,” which won the Maine Chapbook Award in 1994, and “Another Stopping Place.” She teaches part time at College of the Atlantic.

Uni-Verse offers a poem grown from the experience of Maine bimonthly in Monday’s Discovering section. Submissions of poems are welcome. Only poems of fewer than 20 lines are considered, and poems must have a clear, concrete connection to Maine. Because of space limitations on the BDN’s pages, only a small number of poems submitted are able to be used. Electronic submissions may be made as text file attachments to poetry@bangordailynews.net. Hard copy submissions may be made to Dana Wilde, Uni-Verse editor, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04401.