A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell by Jonathan Safran Foer (Editor)

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer (Editor)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: contemporary fiction, literature, poetry, prose, poems, short fiction, short stories
ISBN: 9780141012704
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-11-28T14:00:00+00:00

Paste real wings on the treacherous parrot but it would not fly away. Or so you tell me and so I believe you. Look at it, proud there, pretty and arrogant and anything but dumbfounded, with its evidently orange beak, and with feathers so blue they bring tears to your eyes and to the eyes of Mother and Helen and Elizabeth, too. You say, Let’s keep it. I don’t see these blues and oranges but keep my blindness to myself. The parrot seemed to be low maintenance, as pets go, and so I agreed, nodding. You noted my silence in the matter even as you swore the parrot was not colorless, let alone invisible. It perched on your ceiling that morning, observing us just as you watched it, our mother and sisters staring upward, too. Live and let live, I thought, but wondered if we were to be its keepers or its pets, wondered if we weren’t the invisibles, while parrot, Chinese quince, the sunless sky beyond your constant bed, and even the narrow yard below were the truer presences.

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