Dark Blackbird Poems

Black magic woman.  Wetback seal out on a limb.  Custody battle worse than the raven itself.  Bye Bye blackbird to Beethoven's symphony....

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** Shopping Center Blackbird **

He, rising in defense of the others,
Presenting himself, to all with ears 
To hear and before all eyes,
The black, flapping silhouette...

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The scent of decomposing leaves pervades the air,
a ghost-grey mist hangs, lifeless, on the branches; bare
from vehement leaf-stripping winds, awhile passed through,
denuding all; from Ash...

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If I were a bird love would be my wings
My flock would be of hip hop
Allow me to cruise sky blue white streams
Without fear of...

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I stand atop a podium made of a million mirrors.
Pointing a troupe of crooked-stained glass fingers...  
I was a never born a creature of...

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Blackbird sings shrill at night, before day's dawn, 
not now drowned by traffic's rumble sound, 
nor returning early morning flight from Costa's Benidorm 
to Heathrow's...

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Blackbird is dead.
Yes.  That is what I said.
The woods are still.  The sun is red.
Cherries near his little head.

Dark is coming.  Nanette...

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I feel like a blackbird trapped in its cage, 
so full of sorrow, guilt, and rage. I furl
these dark wing wings and wait, a wind...

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