The air near my fingers felt fraught
as still and unbreathing
I waited with hand outstretched.
Time stopped.
My eyes locked onto his
and gently and slowly I blinked
and in that motion he saw that he was safe
and he came to me,
a flutter of a whisper on my palm,
his pale brilliant beak a magnet
to the tiny crumbs of bread in my hand.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem