Birds
I want to place
a few words about birds
in perfect order.
How they land
on a pond.
The skimming.
How it works.
I want to use
adjectives
more bird-like
than birds,
that leave ink
on your car
when you park
under a tree.
That washes off
in the rain,
which too defies
description.
John Tracy is an attorney and poet from Tuckahoe, NY. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, After Hours, Pictura Journal and Midway Journal, among others.