Feather Muse
The Lace Bird
Seeing through lace, the vista
beyond, obscured by a bird-
perhaps a dove or cockatoo.
Seeing through lace, the vista
beyond, obscured by a bird-
perhaps a dove or cockatoo.
A maker, now lost to sight,
sat quietly hour upon hour in her room
keeping busy hands from the devils work.
This frame of corset boning
came decades later, and long after
she lay beneath that stone out there
Under a favorite hemlock tree,
twisted within it's spreading roots,
hands folded, wound in prayer beads.
came decades later, and long after
she lay beneath that stone out there
Under a favorite hemlock tree,
twisted within it's spreading roots,
hands folded, wound in prayer beads.
