musée mia burrus

The Quill’s Lament

 
 
  
 Admit it!  I looked better on the bird.
 Banded chestnut brown, I set tom turkey’s
 tail aquiver, reeling in the hens,
 though engineered with loftier design.
  
 Now I’ve fallen and been taken up
 in hand to serve a slave to gravity,
 you! and your existential angst.
 We scratch the surface and each dream we will soar.
                                       
  
 Mia Burrus
 May 2016