.......The Birds Of Divorce Poem by elysabeth faslund

Grackles tip step rails.
Garrulously return...
Raucous return...
Insufficient birdings.

Trinity. Rush green free...
Rush, webbed memories.
Late May jottings...
'Did not come home.'
'Did not teach today...
Did not come home.'
'New York. Why no
Souvenirs brought back....? '

You and your fat *itch
Laughing...pointing...
Laughing...tied to the
Earth...never Eagles.

Grackle lawyers tip
Stepping
Around this marriage
Carcass...
Vulture flapping around
A divorce courtroom...

And I, the Mockingbird...
Forever.

A good diet, adultery.
Crow always forces
Wait loss