{"id":1882,"date":"2012-10-23T00:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1882"},"modified":"2012-10-23T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T00:55:01","slug":"kara-lyon-1012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/kara-lyon-1012\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Lyon, 10\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

BIRDS, THE CELTS SAY, ARE THE MESSENGERS OF GODS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is said the Irish have a fortune-telling gut,
\nthat tickles you awake from the inside
\non overcast mornings-
\nlittle beaks pecking the linings
\nof the most stubborn of sleepers.
\nI was already home from work
\nthe morning the call came
\ntelling me you were gone.
\nRose fast out of bed \u2013 ready-
\nas if wings and feather
\nwould soar out of me
\nand out to meet you,
\nfly you home,
\nbut no down
\nerupted from my lips,
\njust one elongated moan,
\na painful caw streaking
\nthrough the bedroom.
\nOutside the window,
\nstartled by the noise,
\na flapping of wings
\ntrails my sorrow where
\nI cannot follow,
\nshedding a shadow of quills
\nso their sister does not cry alone.<\/p>\n

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HEATED<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The swamp ashes<\/p>\n

all bowed to ashes[i]<\/a><\/p>\n

that summer we couldn\u2019t keep our cool.<\/p>\n

The earth baked beneath our feet<\/p>\n

like bread that wouldn\u2019t rise,<\/p>\n

fell inward with cracks.<\/p>\n

Grass became kindle.<\/p>\n

The rose bush spread her legs out<\/p>\n

across the lawn,<\/p>\n

selfish and provocative,<\/p>\n

stealing all the water.<\/p>\n

The mourning doves kept losing their feathers.<\/p>\n

I picked them up thinking they were omens,<\/p>\n

you yelled,<\/p>\n

said I brought disease into the house.<\/p>\n

Out in the yard alone,<\/p>\n

I wept for three months straight.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t enough to turn the leaves<\/p>\n

green again; the first match<\/p>\n

sent the lawn up in flames.<\/p>\n

We watched, dry-eyed,<\/p>\n

no more water left to put it out.<\/p>\n

We lingered, scorched,<\/p>\n

embers dying at our feet,<\/p>\n

the darkness sighing-<\/p>\n

there is nothing left to save.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n


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