Meghan Elizabeth Kelley

BIRD’S EYE

concretized

            the bird awakens 

burrowed in the slush
that melts into the salt 

            poured from the fallen 
sigh of the soil.

immutable

she will widen her
wings where this 

I 
cannot reach

into the lightest
blue of first
dawn-waking

beyond the close-minded
beyond the far-fetched 

high

above the towering
i
it cries
will know you.

cradled in the
elder tree

the one whose
bark has witnessed 
the before 

whose leaves 
have shed
the after

there in this 
space

the eye begins 

 a lingering rustle axels
over the branch

beholden to her

the feather-spoked iris 

weaves with certitude

the betrothal 

of the unlikely 
and the dreamer. 

Meghan Elizabeth Kelley is a poet and writer in Jenkintown, PA. Her articles have been featured on No Sidebar, and her poems have appeared in District Lines and For Women Who Roar magazine. She is also a yoga nidra and meditation facilitator, which helps shape her creative process.