Poems by Alicia Mountain
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Bird Breaks
by Alicia Mountain
From Canary Spring 2018
Alicia lives by the South Platte River with a view of the Rocky Mountains to the west on land that was home to Arapaho and Cheyenne communities before white occupation.
intransigent sparrow at home in Terminal B straw
wrapper
coffee stirrer nest on the
ever lit departures board
neon night sun pushed me out of the city
no blindfold
enough to keep me
a calm hooded hawk
and pigeons pecking at guttered chicken wings
in a
confusion too close to cannibalism
that pushed me out also
like a seagull when the shore turned out to be a
broad
parking lot puddle and how
I keep circling it in disbelief
© Alicia Mountain