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artwork: cassie marie edwards
Bird: Avis
by Joseph
Briggs
beak
rostro
-an
instrument used for opening up the once-living & partaking in them for
nourishment
head
caput
-holds all
the innate wiring that became connected time out of mind
plume
superbire
-a large
showy feather the August wind rips off & thus becomes flotsam & jetsam
belly
venter
-the furnace
no one sees, only hears
throat
faucibus
-a tunnel, a
maze, a rabbit hole
wattle
palea
-a pendulum
of skin closer to the dead leaves than the neck
~ first
published in Black & Blue
