birds
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If I Said Fire
Merlin the color ofThe oft published bird who Won’t worry about pleuralPossessive plural effusion Stretching techInsists on easy book With no words body withNo interstitial little bird don’t peck my vanity and ruineverything.
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Instagram
one in three questions is serioustwo are small hands graspingin the wet-darkfor salinized water hewn stoneor a mustachearriving at customsbefore a tourof the great pyramidsof vegas i am obsessedthrough collagebut that’s behind him now a flashlight / in a closet / at the bottom / of the aegean sea You’re a nag.You’re a liar.You’re lazy.You’re…
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strange bird / light bearer / glittering corpse
Wikipedia Poem, No. 981 begin: top left corner of the frame phosphorescent blue glowings take arms strands curling through the sky stream mind snow heart falling doubt dark seaweed insects fly away divide the sky follow: channel where shadow meets highlight white lily scent of riverbed brain the sun with its spear at dawn with…
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Timely Feathers
TIMELY FEATHERS easy. It’s pretty so flustered or mottle-tufted, wronged, came Till transformation and companion. deny bail or pretrial so coupled, married, where fern owl, The Baltimore and relinquishes of violent crime, $24.00 a long way into WATERBORO, feeding on works like RADIATING Giroux, So that the sister who was forced so harried, government all…
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Gulls
Wikipedia Poem, No. 862 After Robert Hayden In sun-whetted on those efforts morning, or briefed on inter-wrestling control the dropped gull from the workings of those efforts splayed or briefed on those efforts on sand, or briefed on the interpretative wind of those efforts interviews with seven people picking at indigo interpretation points or briefed…
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Download this Free Zine about Appropriated Birds
Caskets is a 16-page zine about appropriation, hotdogs, death, America, war, gargantuan planes and microscopic birds. Please download, share, and distribute illegally in libraries, museums, squat houses and corporate gyms. Thank you, as always, for reading. More at wikipoem.org.
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Pinion/Prison
Describe what it’s like to hear birds and never see them Ask a bird to do the same for you
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‘Magpiety’ by Czeslaw Milosz
The same and not quite the same, I walked through oak forests Amazed that my Muse, Mnemosyne, Has in no way diminished my amazement. A magpie was screeching and I said: Magpiety? What is magpiety? I shall never achieve A magpie heart, a hairy nostril over the beak, a flight That always renews just when…
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