These Sorts of Things
by Kay Kestner:
These Sorts of Things
She takes seagull feathers
builds a strange driftwood bird
with crab claw feet and
horseshoe crab tail beak.
She does not wonder will it fly.
The clam shells spit sand
laughing at her ugly bird
that hisses, hums, and barks
but never like a pretty bird sings.
Yes, she is always making
these sorts of things.
© Written April 4, 2015 – Kay Kestner
Published in Tailfins & Sealskins: An Anthology of Water Lore, Three Drop Press, 2016
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