Starling Song
by Karen Kelsay
I want to be a meadow starling
in your mind. A passerine
to sing long quiet dreams before the moon.
A flutter in the twilight— flight feathers
tucked into each thought. An aria,
embed like an egg of brightest blue,
a fragile shell that hatches songs
of me, inside of you.
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About Karen Kelsay
Karen Kelsay is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of five chapbooks: A Fist of Roots (Pudding House Press 2009) Somewhere Near Evesham (The New Formalist Press 2009) Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Press 2010) Buttercup Garden (Victorian Violet Press 2010) In Spite of Her ( Flutter Press 2010). Her book, Dove on a Church Bench, will be published next year by Punkin House Press. Karen is the Editor and creator of Victorian Violet, an online poetry magazine. She lives in Orange County, California, with her British husband and two cats.