Sunday, August 13, 2006

window

avian habit
worn in windows
for picture time blindness
glass keeps moist
reflections
hitting ground thuds
startle seeds
inevitably
peering out
wonderstunned
smashing
over and over
small hands bury me in a shoe box in the yard
framed fantasy smudge remains
blessed by the Nazarene

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderstunned and bless by the Nazarene.

Wicked.

Quitmoanez said...

This is very good Cara.

Lorne Roberts said...

And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window,
so we eulogized fondly,
we dug deep and threw its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole,
and rushed out to kill something new,
so we could bury that too.

(lyrics to "sounds familiar" by the weakerthans- john k. samson)

Quitmoanez said...

It just keeps getting cooler!