City Parrots
The flock a shawl flung into the air
wings catch the sun
all flash green at once, signaling
I am at last
in the right place
at the right time
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Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired psychologist, former German Lit major, and restaurant reviewer, no longer lives for Art but still thinks about it a lot. Work has appeared recently in Chiron Review, Mobius, B O D Y, Offcourse, and The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. Collections include Burrowing Song, Eggs Satori, and Kafka’s Cat (Kattywompus Press), The Book of Knots and Their Untying (Kelsay Books), and, The Beautiful Leaves and Eve the Inventor (Bamboo Dart Press). She co-curates Fourth Saturdays, a long-running poetry series in Claremont, California.
Beautiful image.
Ah, yes…felt that way before!