The Circle of Scattered Pieces

Making Poems

I stuffed an ibis
I caught one dream
with cotton swabs
from aspirin bottles.
I stitched the skin
with nylon thread
from raveled socks
and waxed the beak
with paraffin
from jelly jars.
I propped it up
against the wall
above my mantel.
It shook its wings
and flew away.

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Updated last on:  2001/05/24