Christopher Patton

   Authors

       Adam Pendelton
       Arthur

       Brian Belott
       Chad Faries
       Christopher Patton
       Christopher Stackhouse
       Dan Golden
       Elisabeth Kinsey
       Ernest Loesser
       Henry Williams
       Jayson Iwen
       Jenny Benjamin Smith
       Kathleen Eull
       Kevin Gallagher
       Matthew Chase
       Pearl Blauvelt
       Timothy Marvel Hull


Bird Song

 

                   —I am late. Private.
Complacent. Past condition.
(—Her voice.)
                                               —Morning. Sunlight. Coffee
               back on the deck watching life
at a feeder. Nothing is left
               by noon but commotion

               of new leaf, a bold
new white note:

                                                                        I am enough
I am—enough

                                                               but no not yet
                not that

                                                         my life my joy
my light


                                my love my one my way

                He comes back and he laughs.

                —Another day off?
—Sits there and fidgets. A door
slams behind him and then

                                                                           leave be?
be loved! beloved


                                                                      It seems . . .
there’s no need to fear, it’s just, I’m
              four days late now.
                                                                              —I’m sure



it’s nothing at all.
—Hear the birds at it?

                                                                            our love
our seed our god our greed

                                                                                   Do you
                  hear them?
                                              —I don’t hear them at
all, no.
                        our light our lot! too late

                  to grey to grave! or leave