Bird Photography

[essinem]

they captured
black wings brass beak

but bird ain't a raven.

Head nested
In too-tight white
Collar, feathered by a tie
there is Bird, burning
still
face ballooned
in mid-blow, mighty
wild. Gleaming Were-brass
genius -monster
of saxophone lycanthropy

eyes dilated
in my dilated

eye, screaming blackness

still screaming time-free

quality of blackness / Is not stained
But seen, so strange
So opaque and the image
Is grainy
The bird’s blown
Song, inaudible.