Tag Archives: birds

Feathers

As she moved her bladed hips beneath him, small dark starshaped birds tore out of her hips, nipping at the air, and were then immediately sucked back into her hips, as if by an invisible vacuum. He stopped, and asked—What … Continue reading

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New York Story

When the bird hit me in the side of head, I had no idea what had happened. It felt like someone had blindsided me with a loaded handbag. I clutched at air and went down immediately. I didn’t feel any … Continue reading

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Squall

This way to music, map of birds inking a squall– tenors of deluge.   (Artwork by Chua ek Kay)

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Retreat

Perfectly still dog, robed in dust; birds, choral and bright, flutter and thrash in needle-comb trees; I, this side of dream, trespass lightly.

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Musing

Birdless solitude, Winter’s song, slow, deep, solemn– Musing upon spring.

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Birds

By whirling reams of papered birds, the writer’s flights, short-lived, earn the keep of dreams daringly emptied.

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Mating Call

In a traceless sky, Dali’s lovebird moustaches– Dada’s nature call.

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Sow

Inviolate, the shallow impress of bird’s feet in snow, or, how love, in chronic yield, metes time to sow.

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