‘images of birds flourishing in New York City,’ Robert Chavez + Asiya Wadud

‘images of birds flourishing in New York City,’ Robert Chavez + Asiya Wadud

images of birds flourishing in New York City with Debbie Becker’s March 2020 bird sightings a window could be framed to mark the kind of discipline glass-clean beveled to make the glass bird-safe a secondary tribute to flight or a city or scarlet tanager almost roiling how it glows then three birds glowing, alight pleated woodpecker eastern bluebird house sparrow the birds would see the glass and know the signals to mean we are still here eating our early dinners shuffling between our discipline and the weeks all along the perimeter and in a dream a thrush flew so close to me left me with my memory of distance and the in between distorted and a lonebird a window would be placed next to our early dinner what signals for us, now blessings the sirens the birds — the crystal-tinged pinprick of late March we are given to the red of the tanager, given to the glow given to the house sparrow given to the theater too quiet given to hand over hand, this logic— this leap. imagine a bird flourishing in New York City in March, then it flourishes. dinner was good. it was early. we fixed our attention out the window. Robert Chavez + Asiya Wadud

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