Ode to His Parrot
Lilac-crowned,
ruby-nosed
tufted
iridescent green
how you’d
have been a star
at the
rainforest gala
if ever
you hatched in nest
beneath
belly feathers and coos
in sultry
nights
soft rains
before
hungry boys snatched
you for a dollar.
Poached,
packed, parceled
incubated
for pet-store prowlers
you landed
in his cage
the one
meant for me as ultimatum.
His house,
his rules, he lost
and you,
poor Polly, gazed at winter
shivered,
screeched, cawed, clawed
and
crapped on his rug
instead of
me.
Brindisi
Sweet
dance of my life
be
graceful as the gilded wake
of white pelicans
Forging a
fierce faith
into
morning solitude
opening
portals
Of
connectedness
spontaneous
embraces
unmasked
joy seated
With local
honey
wedge of
brie, chilled prosecco
after-Covid
tea.
Catherine Arra is the author of Deer Love (Dos Madres Press, 2021), Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Marić Einstein (Finishing Line Press, 2020), (Women in Parentheses) (Kelsay Books, 2019), Writing in the Ether (Dos Madres Press, 2018), and three chapbooks. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups. Find her at www.catherinearra.com
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