A Feather in Heather

from KC​.​54 by Ken Clinger

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A Feather in Heather
©2005 Ken Clinger

a feather in heather
marks a location
a flower, an hour
admiration

director, deflector
honeymoon sweetness
forgetful, regretful
incompleteness

singing cyrillic alphabet
without a safety net, later

an inquest, a bird’s nest
freudian friendship
the cow poke who misspoke
covert air strip

athletics, cosmetics
cell phone addiction
club soda, pagoda
silk prediction

tracing elastic silhouettes
paying off rush hour debts

high above the clouds
saucers hover waiting, waiting
in a little while, the
continents will all align
in a hidden cave, molecules are congregating
with a magic word
all will know their microscopic minds

a canteen, a smokescreen
overachiever
defying, denying
map believer

no smoking, invoking
innermost sweet talk
eavesdropping, heart stopping
brimstone sleepwalk

meeting the bird of paradise
trying to break the ice, meanwhile

audition omission
causing a backlash
a bee sting in Beijing
heartthrob news flash

aunt elsie, in chelsea
lured by her sweet tooth
red herring, gift bearing
bag in phone booth

channeling astral butterflies
learning their alibis

have you felt the motion
waiting behind every thought
have you noticed intuition
guiding there with
out an explanation
ancient memories long forgot
ten waiting in the moment
space and time are gone

the feather, in heather
longs to be windblown
the flower in power
not quite homegrown

disaster newscaster
wining & dining
sob sister, arm twister
intertwining

chanting the hindu alphabet
wakens the statuette, meanwhile

the bird’s nest, post inquest
jet set location
the cowpoke, now housebroke
dislocation

fruit salad, invalid
gourmet diversion
insurgent detergent
fresh scent Persian

sighting the ending lyric line
getting out just in time.

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from KC​.​54, released December 25, 2005

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