preybird

                                                                             fermented drip     
                                                                                                                                      clingthroat     
 

pigeons freckle a tidy sky  

                                                           hearty spread                 peacock tail  
 
duck a lasso    
                                                                                                               suck a hummmmmmmm 
 
flamingos shimmer abattoir pink  
 
                                                                           curdlediron   
                                                                               stainplay      

                                                                                                          (there must be a lesson here) 
 
bushel of lemon yellow thrashers  
                                                                                                                                   milkstain sweet     
                                                                                                                           summer syrup slurp  
 
 
beach sticky with corvids 
downtown atlanta speckled in seagulls  

                                                               fermentedcare            clingcut 
   
                                                                                                          a hummingbird ducks a lasso 
    

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abeo chimeka-tisdale (they/them) is an alumni of Anaphora Arts, In Surreal Life, and the McCormack Writing Center. They can usually be found sitting in pockets of sunlight or picking up an absurd number of holds from the library. Their work appears in Frozen Sea, Dead End Zine, and is forthcoming in Epiphany, petrichor, and Bellingham Review.