Travel Chest
The
bird on her maiden flight
Took
a little light reading with her
Daphne
Du Maurier’s The Birds
And
a salutary tale of a Dodo
Leaving
nothing to chance,
She
adjusted the straps on her safety helmet
Defence
against hawk or buzzard
Her
sat-nav’s in her genes
She
wouldn’t know a map from a wish-bone
This
bird’s a book-worm
(Thoreau
to Baudelaire, Chaucer to Poe)
Ever
since she learned that books
Were
written by men with quills
She
has the makings of a first class pilot
Being a bird who
won’t change her feathers
Because the weather
is bad
©
Sheena Blackhall, 2013
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