Malia Jackson – from Birds of Words

Malia Jackson

from Birds of Words

10 Sparrows Sparrows Offer beautiful faces Is fowl and The liar surface faulted Flowerhead sparrows Undone loons in the naughty breakfast Blue Stork fills the rate of Arthur                                 vindaloos our coffees Cannon-eared sparrow Combover your hair Stars ascend to a calm creature Add all the denouncements Invisible scars that scatter Or dermal scatter a hand The salt passed onto the vices As birddom claws at its feet Other purple of sparrows Mask, masked chickadees in repose Gotta mask disrepair              anchor admiral for a perch I question live-a-lie nation Where flies messes of blackbirds Carrying

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