1955, by Cameron Gorman

A Bird in the Room, by Kay Sage (USA) 1955.

1955 (after Kay Sage)

if i could fill the space
above my head with anything
painted, oiled or soaked with
colours, i know

i should like to brush the hand
of copper sculptures,
the repeated visions of Marilyn Monroe,
pink and green and pink and green and green and
pink, but i know
that i’d know,

standing in the cold, rocks hanging from my
breaths,
one white bar across the window,
that I’d need you.

black and blue and hungry
the shapes and figures sparse,
my wall into the ragged breathing
and a bird in the room

Cameron Gorman

Cameron Gorman is a journalist and writer living in Ohio. She is currently the editor in chief of Luna Negra, Kent State's literary arts journal. Website: https://cgorman.contently.com/