from desert palms

twisting, folding, fans and fronds
bending, shaping birds of long
feathers and wildflowers to sing at dawn
fragments of words pronounced wrong

and, and, peaches, and, and, pears of the trees
odd spirits joining the red canaries
thrown wildly at shapes such as these

escaping into the gelatinous sky
wings frantically beating below clouds up high

from desert palms