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work in progress - "In the belly of a white bird"
I am painting a picture of a white bird
with wings spread, the sunset his halo,
his beak pointing east.
Below his left wing,
he has a man's torso.
There is an old woman's face
embedded in his belly, creased, defined.
Her cheeks are sunken, hollow.
Her eyes are deep-set in her head.
They have shadows around them.
The woman is me.
The woman is me.
She is embedded into the chest of a bird,
the man's torso framing her
prominent cheekbones.
The bird can scream.
She cannot.