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Starling

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Autumn-Hills

Published: Jun 5, 2007

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Starling
Starling fell into my garden
Like a desperate feather-bomb
A dark little Icarus
Shrieking for the nest-warm

I held it in my hand
Struggle-straggle bony form
Stubborn-stupid brave
Soft and skeletally warm

Breast still young with down
Fluff and flutter and scaly feet
Clasping at my finger
Tiny half bald feathered heat

Little blinking eyes stare up
Black-bright-squeezed-shut fright
Beak bobs, hunched shoulders
Life-weighted and yet so light

I remember the transformation
Between desperate and calm
I remember Starling
The tiny heart-hammer
Against my palm

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faeriecrone

Sep 23, 2008

I read this because Jay featured it.

I love the way the connection to warmth, to heat, to life permeates the piece.
And I am glad it did not end with a cold baby bird.

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