(on chrome yellow background with daisy)
Stephen Alexander 2017
You know what it is to die alone,
Baby bird!
To have fallen from the nest, unfledged,
Dragon-faced and flipper-winged.
Once your tiny beak-mouth chirruped
With bold reptile defiance, indomitable.
Now maggots rend your unfeathered flesh.
Baby bird!
To have fallen from the nest, unfledged,
Dragon-faced and flipper-winged.
Once your tiny beak-mouth chirruped
With bold reptile defiance, indomitable.
Now maggots rend your unfeathered flesh.
