All posts tagged: bird

February 23

February 22, 2015
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In the holly, a steller’s jay, angles hiding angles– black-beaked, black -crested, less bird than polygon, the very shape of caution– its sleek blue bravura hidden in the shadows of one hundred glossy leaves, I saw momentarily the bird itself, not the brash emblem it presents and loudly projects from blatant chimney perches– It was unguarded I saw a touch of matte on a bird that is all glint and grit and out and open, […]

January 21

January 21, 2015
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Speaking of birds some thumbed the air between the dawn and the plastic cover of my headlights it must have been this morning and the right side of the road which is technically the orientation for both going and coming here but all I remember is the shape of the birds decidedly not bird-like beading up in feathery condensation coursing across my field of vision gray and fluid and seemingly wingless bushtits maybe the tiniest […]