John Kinsella

     for that you

Companion blue backdrop
tense as stretched is taut when
comparisons are made, unlike
as error, beneath our spectra,
our readout: a goodness
sits there, perched,
scoped
as tableau,
from edges, a view
of wilderness and suffering
on outskirts: to look below
the waterline, companion,
facsimile: as if to watch you
enlarged like rage,
sky upheld, scarified
by rectrix: bird-type
like a species of parrot,
though chevroned
and saturated in long wave-length,
we register, I that bird,
spectre of.