Saturday, December 11, 2010

Congress of the Birds



Wandering surrealists
                    release mechanical birds

automata cluster,
                    snap their little metal beaks

hair triggers hinged
                    with a clever trip spring

begging for a bit of bug
                    they chirp for wormy office

like speakers of the house,
                    carve their faces out of tin.

Sensing a trace of antimony wind,
                    feathers rattle with the rustle
                              of dead-brushed brass.

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