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Poem nominated for 2012/2013 Pushcart Prize -- Originally published in Ibbetson Street Review, #31:
TREE OF WOMEN
The birds are camouflaged
amidst the foliage purple and green
in the tree’s broad-shouldered canopy,
a universe in the universe.
A painting might not show
how the birds are women,
afraid to show their faces,
they’d rather crouch close
to the bark and mew in pastel tones
as the terrifying, obfuscating night
folds in, all their softness wrapped around
their little hearts fibrillating so loud
that the hawks hanging above silent in the sky
will likely smile and swoop. Another trivial feather
life gripped in iron talons writhes,
goes peaceful and is forgotten.
-Laurie Soriano
The birds are camouflaged
amidst the foliage purple and green
in the tree’s broad-shouldered canopy,
a universe in the universe.
A painting might not show
how the birds are women,
afraid to show their faces,
they’d rather crouch close
to the bark and mew in pastel tones
as the terrifying, obfuscating night
folds in, all their softness wrapped around
their little hearts fibrillating so loud
that the hawks hanging above silent in the sky
will likely smile and swoop. Another trivial feather
life gripped in iron talons writhes,
goes peaceful and is forgotten.
-Laurie Soriano
