- 1. Crisis Counselor
She was a coat of arms
seasoned for the job -- tough
and polished like tortoise shell.
When the women were tougher,
...
- 2. The Egret Floating
I was suddenly back in bristles
when I saw the egret floating,
a stretched spline thrown down
...
- 3. Birdsong
I am eagle; don't be fooled by red silk
heels that sound so much like clanking clay
on hardwood floors where you and I one night
did lay when there was no heat left
...
- 4. The Sloth
Her back is an ecosystem,
algaeic and wrapped
beneath a canopyâ??s sun.
...
- 5. Sea Canaries
The small white whales in packs of pods
keep their pacts with us, the fated beasts.
...
- 6. Fawn Ghazal
Inside a snowy blanket which put the trees to sleep,
I heard a fawn.
Out past the window's ice coat in the morning, I
found a sleeping fawn.
...
- 7. Bridge Ghazal
My love and I reside upon the belly of a bridge
with heartbeats of the sky?--the drums upon the bridge.
I've heard of songs that rise at night from pitch black oceans.
...
- 8. San Simeon Hill Zebras
Drifters, if they could be.
Sometimes, when they think
no one is watching,
they near the barbed wire.
...
by C.j. Sage
