When there’s no logic, that’s when you know you’re in someone else’s dream -adrienne maree brown Too often, I flew alone, other times side by side, or trailing behind, trying to keep up. Two points can never form anything complex, rounded.
Archive for the ‘Birds’ Category
Murmuration
Posted in Birds, Emergence, Isolation/Belonging, Murmuration, Physics, The Soul on July 22, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Again I write a poem about sunrise, birdsong and anthropomorphized trees
Posted in Birds, Hummingbirds, Longing, Love on January 14, 2023 | 2 Comments »
I am on the balcony before it begins. Achromatic darkness, the sky tangible, reaching back to my outstretched fingers, pressing on my face. A steady hum of cars, the clack and clangs of the train yard trill, chirrup, cheep and chur.
Threshold
Posted in Nest, Renewal/rebirth, Transformation, Writing on July 4, 2022 | 4 Comments »
Some summer mornings I resist the invitation to greet the day on the page, murmur excuses within the crowded clamor – too cold, too gray, too late – then the seagull flies overhead, mouth dangling dark matter extracted from a neighbor’s gutter, to the nest I cannot see but must be close.
Beacon Hill Park
Posted in Birds, Leaving, Pacific Northwest on April 12, 2022 | 2 Comments »
Bleak as the splat of the just-fed bird’s dropping on my lime green dress of cashmere whitish liquid dripping its way down what had been a rarely achieved elegance. Omens are no rival for blindness. That royal raven chased me out of its court sent me running, frightened and foolish, sure it was happening, unsure I […]
Winter Solstice
Posted in Hummingbirds, Love, Moon/moonlight, Wind, Winter on December 21, 2021 | 2 Comments »
He spoke of watching the hummingbird bring soft fuzz and leaves high in the sequoia in the front yard. He watched it turn around and form it with its vibrating tail feathers and tiny humming bottom, circling like a dog before settling in, readying it for its mate. He told of the days that came […]