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Devon Brock
Poems
Aug 2019
The Ornithology of Perception
Iridescence on the neck
of the boat-tailed grackle
is a trick of light.
Much the same
as the swirled acid
rainbow slitherings
of oils on water -
slick - metallic
the call.
Much the same
as the prismed arches,
aloof,
heavy airs slashed
by gut level
blades of low suns -
never there, but chaste
and chased by the eye.
The blue jay hoards
no pigment blue,
but gray conspires
the barbules,
interlocked
to lift the remains
of the speckled shell
under any light or lack,
slackened back,
flashed on limbs and wire:
back to the clutch,
back to the hatch,
back to the wide red cups,
back to the ratcheting call -
the screech of all things blue.
Written by
Devon Brock
55/M/Middle America
(55/M/Middle America)
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