Robin Wright

Green Honeycreeper
 
You’re rare but spotted
in Columbia by a surprised
birdwatcher, your body
divided down the middle,
feathers painted blue
on the right, your male side,
and green on the left,
your female side.
 
Experts observed that you
distance yourself from others,
don’t know how to woo
another of your species.
Are you able to reproduce?
 
I look at pictures of you,
so small and vulnerable,
and want you to find
the bird that is your bird,
have babies that call you
what means love
in your language.

Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, Loch Raven Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, Spank the Carp, The New Verse News, Rat’s Ass Review, One Art, Young Ravens Literary Review, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.