Sunday, November 23, 2014

Excerpt: A Pinch of Cupboard View










A Birder Builds a Nest on Paper

You scratch at twine that turns to sequins 
Rough bark splinters
silver flecks on paper etched  Your eyes
move down into the honing
sound    shadows against a path
Neighborhood revealed in winter windows
cars and roofs    edges
Blue black wings clear a patch   pass the blind
sightings might be hummingbird, might be sparrow
instead they shape shift into diction
crown   and   foothold   necktie    breach
The flight's the flood    words that flit 
you rearrange the rivulet of caw caw sounds

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