Global warming

Outside the harbor / Icebergs of hate / Drift in warmer seas

Bacon tongue sizzles / Words of fire / Serves edible ash

City of churches / On microphone / Queer poet self-immolates

Drive home / Open windows / Blow burnt soul from hair

Microwave stale coffee / Sip yesterday on porch / Stir world awake

Pan edge of sky / Egg yolk breaks / Folds omelet clouds

Round-bellied red bird / Wants more than his share / Chases others away

Blue calico / Stalks quietly / Oblivious, bird still feeds

Hungry watchers / Perch in trees / Twitter no warning

Left paw scatters / Crimson feathers / in green grass

** 02/14 (poem from notes taken after Andrea Gibson’s poetry reading in Charleston, October 2019)

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