Emily Wall

Navigating Faith Manuscript

Living in the City

 

 

My hands

these strange birds—

 

at night I dream they take

off and owl through some

 

foreign place of soil and branches

satiating themselves—

 

then I wake, and here they lie

folded and warm on my belly

 

flexing slightly, as if soothing

back, one wild, damp feather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This poem first appeared in the Canadian journals Room of One’s Own and Jones Av.  ©Emily Wall 2005.