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Steller's Jay

from The Orb Weaver by Faminebow

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Rubber band stretched across my scapulae,
I wrench myself forward
hauling a caravan of misdeeds, ribcage
and exposed skin bared to icicle winds.

I am not resisting these changes.
Shape means nothing when you are buried
in mud or sand. I’ll tell you anything to sate
your parched lips, the world is drowning in my tale.

Forgiveness in the form of a jay
who perched on my railing pecks at the scattering.
Forgiveness capitulates in the face of a club,
carving any sharp tooth into sharper bullets.

When I carry you on my rigid back
I’ll take you to the land drowned in tears.
Drowned in a ghost every step of the way,
the trees wept cascades of sap.

A wound in my head won’t heal.
Daily it opens, evacuates thought;
I couldn’t place my tongue on memory,
but could tell you everything about the water.

It’s words that keep my mind reeling, a verbiage
tied tightly across my heart. A lie
exposing a cell block to burning air,
would that I could. Please hold that bird delicately

or it will grow wary of the seeds.
I cannot offer anything other than the seeds.
Gardens bristling with life in a loamy patch,
a thicket with fireweed blossoming.

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from The Orb Weaver, released November 3, 2023

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When you fall back asleep in the morning, I am there in your vivid dreams. When you touch the ice, I am kissing your hand. When the sky fills with strange color, I am the arc of the rainbow through it. When the wind howls in the wet night, I am weeping in your ear.
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