avatarKim Slemint

Free AI web copilot to create summaries, insights and extended knowledge, download it at here

576

Abstract

; throw away the key</p><p id="6a15">Ten years on from</p><p id="ca3e">the tin anniversary</p><p id="8f4f">he has not deteriorated</p><p id="6769">he hangs alone</p><p id="b6b8">No seed at his feet</p><p id="17a2">Mr Blue Jay comments</p><p id="a8d3">I say<i> yeah, yeah, yeah</i></p><p id="b60e">I know</p><p id="5a65"><i>I left, I left, I left</i></p><p id="ec77">he tilts his head and listens</p><p id="ac40">ready to mock me</p><p id="4d5f">birds in the Southern Hemisphere</p><p id="599b">aren’t this needy</p><p id="695a">a chickadee scoffs</p><p id="c3b4">as she picks b

Options

ugs from pine</p><p id="cd04">I miss these characters</p><p id="ad65">now we have</p><p id="75f3">nosey Tuis</p><p id="8ec8">laughing Rosellas</p><p id="542d">drunk Kererū</p><p id="3130">& tauhou fluttering</p><p id="0e57">with subtle acts of exclusion</p><figure id="2342"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*yVpsf27cx7_s4X3y548nQQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Image copyright of author.</figcaption></figure><p id="b732">Thanks for reading, and as always-thanks to<b> Franco Amati</b> for publishing my work in<b> Scuzzbucket</b>.</p></article></body>

Box of birds

Sweeping dirt and leaves

Washing it all down

With mindless curiosity

A Blue Jay greets

In the same tone

He always has

I live on the other side

of the planet now

Tin man hangs rusting

A red heart outside his chest

I want to take him home

to nurture

Ministry of Agriculture

would lock me up

& throw away the key

Ten years on from

the tin anniversary

he has not deteriorated

he hangs alone

No seed at his feet

Mr Blue Jay comments

I say yeah, yeah, yeah

I know

I left, I left, I left

he tilts his head and listens

ready to mock me

birds in the Southern Hemisphere

aren’t this needy

a chickadee scoffs

as she picks bugs from pine

I miss these characters

now we have

nosey Tuis

laughing Rosellas

drunk Kererū

& tauhou fluttering

with subtle acts of exclusion

Image copyright of author.

Thanks for reading, and as always-thanks to Franco Amati for publishing my work in Scuzzbucket.

Nature
Scuzzbucket
Zen
Recommended from ReadMedium
avatarJ.D. Harms
I Want You to Know

Let it flow

3 min read
avatarMelissa Lemay
Dissociated

Poetry

2 min read