Cardinal by Tyree Daye

Author:Tyree Daye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Would You Miss Me?

I’m far away from my living, the dead

in me are birds,

the wind finally gave my uncle wings.

I hope this storm miles off will carry me to him,

the heart is not a cardinal, it can’t leave on its own

without the body.

If wings grew out of my back

my heart couldn’t take their beating, so I feed the birds

parts of me no one called beautiful,

my father’s moon of a nose.

I made a room of my grief.

When you ask to enter

it changes itself into a room half its size.

If I didn’t return the way snowbirds return with snow,

songbirds return songs to one another across a harvested field,

the way my grandmother returns to my dreams begging me

to let her stay dead.

The light returning to her face in minutes.

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