 I Am Through Taking Leftovers, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada), 2016. Click on image for Etsy link to original. The Starling Cut-out comic strips rainy afternoon squiggles smears of lipstick photos with marker-blackened faces stray feathers spilled paint-- I have given up these shreds and shards these puzzles pieces these fragments of finger pointing self-guided self-aimed missiles missives on my failures. Instead I will unite them quilt a bird with a humour-lined face a wingful of white-hot sun a body coloured with waterfall- curtained haikus and opal eyes whose lustre shifts between twilit forest midday ocean desert sky devoured by stars. The canvas opens to catch my starling fling it out to corners splash it in the centre its sheen flashing purpose. Taunja Thomson This poem was written for the 20 Poem Challenge. Taunja Thomson: "My poetry has most recently appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic and will be featured in the September 2016 issue of Halcyon Days. Two of my poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Award: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005 and “I Walked Out in January” in 2016. I have co-authored a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry which has recently been accepted for publication and have a writer’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter"
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November 2021
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