“BirdLove” by Dawn Web
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “BirdLove” by Dawn Web.
BirdLove
By Dawn Web
Break my pin feathers
And stay in my nest.
It was abnormal
Good weird, to be gay
Break my pin feathers
You lay on my chest
To give and receive
My blood needs all-day
Make me your dinner
Forever we play
Formal, you hold me
And stay in my nest.
Copyright © Dawn Web
Dawn Web is a queer and mixed-race emerging interdisciplinary artist, scientist, educator, publisher, entrepreneur, and the published author of “Red Corner: a poetry anthology”. Dawn is a BSc alumna and is completing a BA, Creative Writing and Entrepreneurship, Minor in Neuroscience at Dalhousie University. Web founded Vivid Illusion Creative Studios, an inter-arts studio and publishing house. Their work has been featured in The Dalhousie Gazette, Fathom Creative Writing Journal, Periodicities: a Journal of Poetry and Poetics, House of Eights Dance Studio, Voices Dance Project, and Wool Sweater Music.
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