If Bird

IF BIRD

You would be my loon
calling long past light, 
my mourning dove, my
sweetest finch flashing
sun from black as night.

If my bird you were I’d
feed you nectar from my 
palm and plant thick trees
for you to rest and nest until
I could transform my arms
and hands to feathered limbs—
our hearts remade as song.

Thank you to the editors of The Tishman Review for first publishing this poem.