Monday, January 23, 2023

Who We Are With Birds

By Girard Tournesol


Like a skate’s icy spray

a charm of goldfinches bathed 

in powdered snow at the feeder 

feathers a dull winter maze


My mind wanders to an aria of canary

caged in some pet store menagerie, 

plastic castles in wood chips 

their songs of freedom


I see countless people buying them, 

taking one home in a cage 

when the right thing to do is buy them all

and set them free

No comments:

Post a Comment

Four Fifteen

Who will volunteer to search yesterday's years for buried slightest traces Of a people born to be weather-torn from their prized and pre...