What happens when birds fall?

Do birds always fall?

a broken jet wing

fills the river-flat

today
What if a bird

fell between us?

let it be swift

old cat

How many birds would it take to spin a cyclone?

Can bird bones blow wind into my lungs?



                                                   bone and quill

                                                 straighten, lungs

                                               burst, ears

                                             scream, tail

                                           rudders, wings

                                         sweep 

                                         I define

                                                    flight

                                                           arrow

                                                                  death for one fish
What if I could taste

your breath between us?
                                                                                 salt 

Do birds ever get sick of air?

Do all birds like the colour blue?

down, down,

down feather, down

down in flames

flaming down

flamin’ go down

flamingo down

down dance

brolga dance

starling flocks

startlings

murmur

n      ations
Are birds’ mouths

too small for us? 

that cuckoo will swoop my last bubble

 breath


Is the first joint of my little finger a vulture delicacy?

What would if feel like to break a bone with a beak? 

up

water streams

air rushes

I accelerate

with my catch

to the sun

and the height and

the flock

all around


Would you claw away

the blood between us
I hear the fish in my gullet

Can beaks be soft?

Would you recognise a smiling bird?

tiny bird

insects at sunset

a Möbius loop


Will you ever wash your side

of the glass between us?
cit︢ sis︢ sic︢ ran nar︣ cis︣ sis︣ tic

chickcihc

What would life sound like from inside an egg?

Would there be more swans if kicked-chicks lived? 
mother duck coo Ɵ


water Ơ – tap tap tap Ƹ

mother duck calls from the pond
we launch  ҈

into air


into water

wait
are we dabblers or divers?

Will you stand there

till the air is cold between us?
kookaburra’s chest

How many feathers make a bird?

How many feathers do you have?
                                                                        the balance between the

                                                                      the rise on the

                                                                    the dip on the

                                                                  the warp and weft of the

                                                                    the scents on the

                                                                      the sounds of the

                                                                        the spray of the

                                                                        the shades of the

                                                                      the feel of the

                                                                    the hunger in the

                                                                    the love of the

                                                                      and	the	joy	of	the
Are there feathers

between us?
what does she see in him?

Are you a bird?

If you could be a new kind of bird, what would you look like?
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a◊a


regit◊tiger


htom a◊a moth


htom-regit a◊a tiger-moth


htom-regit wolley a◊a yellow tiger-moth


htom-regit wolley thgirb a◊a bright yellow tiger-moth


htom-regit wolley thgirb◊bright yellow tiger-moth


htom wolley thgirb◊bright yellow moth


regit wolley thgirb◊bright yellow tiger


wolley thgirb◊bright yellow


wolley◊yellow


thgirb◊bright


htom◊moth


a◊a


a◊a


a◊a

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How will birds end?