One Meander Rocky wants to know whether hummingbirds long for tabla music. At a restaurant in Santa Rosa, I met a busboy who played a sort of blues on his sitar, a sort of masala of birdsong or fingersong. Remember travel? My husband speaks with animals. His hands make fine music. I want to send him out with honey, forked windfall branches, the manly ribbons of morris dancers, to stand out back and wait for all that hovers. Saint Rob of Assisi. But we’re in half-glass boxes now, our lives narrow wavelengths, nothing warmer than a steady drum, nothing cooler but bird feet and human skin. © 2020 Pamela Murray Winters
Bio:
Pamela Murray Winters is a poet from Bowie, Maryland. Her poetry collection is The Unbeckonable Bird (FutureCycle Press, 2018). “One Meander” sprung from a remark by poet Rocky Jones on Facebook on May 12, 2020..
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Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
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Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
Please consider donating to AFAC. If you do, let us know which poet or artist inspired you so we can send you a personal thank you.
