Ghost-Bird by Paul McMahon

     – for Kieran McMahon

The feathers
of a snatched bird

still in the shape
of its living form

floating in the air
like the exhaled breath

of an invisible
breather

*

the last shadow

cast the moment
the bird was taken,

showing
its presence,

its absence.

From: https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/ghost-bird

Date: 2018

By: Paul McMahon (19??- )