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ottawater: 12 - 5<br />
John<br />
Barton<br />
A PARROT’S LIFE<br />
The floral cosmos of clicks he chortles<br />
Won’t replant Eden inside his absent<br />
Keeper’s ear. Perch to chair he flits, settles<br />
Again lifts, no other mortal his. Scant<br />
Chance he’ll lark for someone else, his descant<br />
Plucking lightning bolts from his jilted flesh<br />
Beaked blurts ripping him featherless, his mesh<br />
Of phonic selfhood rent fetishistic<br />
Sharp atonal scales set to avalanche<br />
God lonely without his flock: autistic.<br />
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Gail Bourgeois<br />
nodes+lines<br />
www.gailbourgeois.ca
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