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Beautiful Firetail

Beautiful Firetail

A poem by Pete Hay

December 6, 2016May 2, 2020 Pete HayLeave a comment

.             Wounded sun, light leaking down.
Winter rules the growling beach, this treacherous
stretch I have trudged, lead-footed, with the dog.
It is ungraspable, a thing of surge and storm,
.             of sly, surreptitious shift. Continue reading “Beautiful Firetail” →

Posted in PoemsTagged birds, death, society
Cranky Fans

Cranky Fan

A poem by Pete Hay

December 6, 2016May 2, 2020 Pete HayLeave a comment

Published in ‘Physick’ (2016)

 

Here is her nest,
his stem-and-glass pride
lacquered in spiderspun silk.

And here my trickster friend
flairs his cardsharp hand,
her geisha flutter of fan. Continue reading “Cranky Fan” →

Posted in PoemsTagged birds, nature

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