A Bird of Feather

Here's a new piece, tentatively written for the degree project.

Birds of Feather

Engulfed by mist

language labels its history

-a colloquial organ in flight

-a familiar form

(yet how each longs for escape from blue feathers)

-a flying V

writhing within

the frost of verbiage;

-an orphaned lark

abandoning her wings

with bemusement:

(but does time remember

the task of living

as life's lattices unwind?)

Manifest

within the wind

channeling the congress of lost ravens

a voice nuzzles the velvet

that envelops the night