Bird Slam
Pamela Nocerino
Our windows
are not that clean
but the birds hurt themselves
anyway
and I startle
from a page of prose or verse
like we crashed into each other
in separate skies
and both fell
but not to the ground.
I stare up and through,
blank,
until I find words again.
They are on the floor
which page?
Oh yes, the perfect pairing
of butterscotch with light.
Yes,
there,
lift
again.
are not that clean
but the birds hurt themselves
anyway
and I startle
from a page of prose or verse
like we crashed into each other
in separate skies
and both fell
but not to the ground.
I stare up and through,
blank,
until I find words again.
They are on the floor
which page?
Oh yes, the perfect pairing
of butterscotch with light.
Yes,
there,
lift
again.
Pamela Nocerino is a ghostwriter, actor, and teacher who once helped build a giant troll in the Rocky Mountains. Her poetry credits include Gyroscope Review, Plum Tree Tavern, Splintered Disorder Press, Third Estate Art’s Quaranzine, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Capsule Stories, Minnow Literary Magazine and boats against the current. Pamela’s other publishing credits include fiction, nonfiction, short plays, songs, and an essay recently selected by Lavender Bones Magazine.