Unveiling

Create: Jan 22, 2023 23:00 IST
Black Bird perching in the tree

In this unveiling: a rain-stabbed

blackbird’s obsidian sigh rises

 

from meat-fragrant slits

in our speech patterns,

 

where a way of seeing home,

smeared on walls with elbow blood,

 

is also a way of nozzling

bird caw to thieved land,

 

or scissoring fog-lobed night

into crescent moons,

 

while a bell’s deoxygenated moan,

weeping for its lost reflection,

 

is hauled away on a horse-drawn hearse.

 

(Sherwin Bitsui)