Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Dead Bird

Not a red bird but a robin
resting feet up
on our recycling bin.

Eyes closed, it doesn’t dream
of endless seed-fields,
dry nest shielded from wind.

I toss it over the fence,
but not before admiring
the immaculate theology

of its Trinitarian claws,
deeply bloodied breast,
wings that once stormed Heaven.

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