A bird

First published in Solitary Plover #23, Winter 2016, page 4, the journal of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker. Also published in Afagando a Face de Lorca [Stroking Lorca’s Face], edited by Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho, Lajes do Pico, Portugal: Companhia das Ilhas [Island Company], 2020, pages 178 (English) and 179 (Portuguese translation by the editor). Originally written in April 2008 in a Hedgebrook workshop with Anne Waldman on Whidbey Island. Listen to a recording of me reading this poem at the Seattle Central Library in November of 2010 (my reading starts at around the 9:00 mark) as part of the 2010 Jack Straw Writers Program.       +       +       +