Sonnet by Karen Volkman

The blue blanched figures – system of bird –
possess the future in the singing spring,
syrinx opulens, the eye a ring
noon will burn in like a perfect word   

in a breathing sentence the silence blurred.
Principally throat, motion arriving
aural integral or static wing
come to this remonstrance, harm, high, heard

and white kept opiate the nothing wides.
Palliative the skewed sky shackles, flails.
High integument that curts and glides

and beads the waters where its silver sails
the streaming numbers, aureate scales.
Enough says the girl and screams and hides.

by Karen Volkman (c)
first published by EPC