Best Linnet Poems

“Arms Full of Linnet Wings”

In the garden 
that afternoon 
she planted seeds
in their ripe minds
their eyes looking
up to hers their 
irises dazzling 
in the late afternoon
sunshine wide open
as if waiting hungrily 
for more food 
she dropped words into 
their mouths which 
they swollowed whole
jewels like...

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Sir – dearest Vicar,

You also came to sing?
Of course, after the third crow
Of our life-void cock
We had gathered like song-throated weavers
Highly assorted souls rallied
To sing his high-pitched liberty
– It was like Earth’s freedom! –
You also came for the rally?

Sir – darest Vicar,
You came robed in...

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Darest Vicar,
Hearers were surprised to hear:
“I am glad to address this rally” –
Would our Cape-bred peacock consent
To perch on these foiled hill-top trees?

Darest V.C.,
It was this faked feast 
That held our souls surfeit
That held our eyes in a toad-like
Astonishment – our eyes stood still
Within that...

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melodic twitters 
from a linnet 
sunrise
...

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