I forget the world is waiting
Somewhere outside the sunlit meadow
When her tiny chirps beg
For my undivided attention
On her scrawny skittering curiosity.
With an eye like a sunset,
Deep crimson dancing behind ancient shadows,
She watches me as if I am her flightless baby.
Her beak shatters into the ancestral roar,
"Where were you?" — her little mouth pinching it into
"K'dew, k'dew, k'dew!"
I laugh in response.
She darts away on candlewick legs,
Her eyes blaze; the white of her throat
As bright as a distant star;
Slick black feathers hold it close—
Fragile stormclouds that don't drift far.
She spreads her wings and soars into the red-gold day,
As I wonder what world she makes
When the sun sets.
ESTÁ A LER
Animal Emotion
PoesiaThese are my poems about animals, with some about the human animal. Some of these have been published in local journals. Previously published poems: "Close-Up With a Giraffe" "The Blue Heron" "The Baby Bunny" "Tired Hearts" ...
