Poem2024-07-25T09:32:52+00:00

Today

By: Ingrid Showalter Swift

Today I will capture
the bird of myself,
I will see my colored feathers...
my array.

I will image it;
is it your flourish...
instead of my own?

As I love you...
I will delight in each subtlety
embrace each feather...
the gorgeous and the ugly.

You, the most beautiful bird
I have ever known, you will show me
how to love these colors...
as I see them as my own.