Beside Herself by Chris Price

Author:Chris Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

MUSEUM PIECES

Feathers, bones, beaks and feet

National Library of New Zealand /

Museum of Natural History, Oxford

In the drawer’s forest-scented

darkness I lie on my back.

An impossible posture —

claws grip dead air

where no branch could be,

head thrown back beyond

the reach of song.

According to inheritance

I should have been

an evergreen bird;

instead I flare this rare

and fatally desirable

sun-yellow. Even so,

even here, there is reason

to be thankful. For example

the display case titled

Feathers, Bones, Beaks and Feet.

Someone out there is resurrecting

viruses from the Pleistocene, and

one day surely useless beauty

too will stage its comeback:

bigger, better, cosseted, and

harbouring one vengeful

and unseen disease preserved

and nurtured for millennia

by my unforgetting half-

sisters, the harpies.

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