Thursday, October 21, 2004

popinjay

Ah, a talking bird that out talks the pirates

in the half hour story Molly read to Peter

on his birthday

didn’t have to guess what

she was thinking

couldn’t even think

through the clatter of the chatter and

the clutter of the drumbeat

sounds

just like explosions

like a catastrophe in the desert

like a liar having lunch in a morgue that’s big

as a monastery full of limbs and branches

and on every sprig lands a popinjay

and the world grows heavy and begins to fall

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