Catbird
This catbird, inches outside, in full view to me, but hidden in the holly from another perspective, keeps darting from phrase to phrase until its stream of unconsciousness brings my mother to mind
Bellingham Review Contributor
Robert Cording’s tenth book of poems, In the Unwalled City, is forthcoming from Slant in 2022. New poems are out or forthcoming in The Common, Southern Review, The Hudson Review, The Sun, 32 Poems, AGNI.
This catbird, inches outside, in full view to me, but hidden in the holly from another perspective, keeps darting from phrase to phrase until its stream of unconsciousness brings my mother to mind