The Flight Schedule

photo of a Russian Gull by Alexei Mikhailov
Click on it for a larger view. Worth it.

The Flight Schedule

After all she tells
me how she mistrusts all words
and meter and lines
and rhythm and rhyme
and the smell of me as well
and how I sound when
declaiming to thousands
and would prefer me to turn
on this gravel road,
turn into a gull
dropping one feather white like,
one slip of young down
as I race on back
to the rocky slick coastline
of my long ago.

‎November ‎29, ‎2014 8:01 AM