About Birds / Stacy Kidd

 Stacy kidd is completing a PhD in English at the University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Columbia, Eleven Eleven, The Iowa Review and WITNESS, among others. She is founder and editor of the new online journal intersection(s), which launches this winter and is found here: intersectionsjournal.org. About Birds This is our little lie, little pigeon, why we wink for copper or stop near water to fill our arms with wildflowers—we’re struck again. All feathers, bother the sky. A little girl, she’s cough & cough. She tilts her head & pitches a few crumbs out the window, bird, bird. Her room is growing again. A body, it grows into another body, but not like the dream of kissing. The first time we peel an apple in one legendary strip—toss, toss our hair & gorge on cider.