[ToC]

 

IN THREES

Brenda Sieczkowski

 

wool coat I /
missing a /
I'm walking /
 lend a stran /             
cuff button /
on thin threads (1)
 ger comes back                         
a note in /    the pocket
dead parrot /
behind plate /   
of water/
 with button /            
glass a dish
laced with /		 eyes saucered (2)    

breast feathers
green tail wind /  
inside the /
twenty-sev /		         whistling my / 
breast pocket (3) /
en days be /		                        pretty birthday
of white wool
fore thirty

                                                                                                                                                         

 

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(1) knot coming back

(2) Bermuda by Spode

(3) stratocumulus mammatus

 

 

 

 

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If the residuum from a long night of dreaming could be poured into an ice cube tray and frozen, it might result in a poem like this. By the same (dream) logic, if [this] dead bird married [this] dead bird, their china pattern might look like [this].