RORSCHACH IMAGE #5
by Gloria Heffernan
Upside Down
Right-Side Up
Congress
Monarch’s Migration
two conjoined crows
beaks snapping
shriek the shrill cawcawcaw
saying nothing
wings atrophied
unable to take flight
struggling for emergence
left wing, right wing
shriveled and paralyzed
each pulling
in the opposite direction
earthbound.
the flight from Mexico
was exhausting—
turbulence over Tiajuana
thunderstorms in Santa Cruz
and the smog in L.A.
could make an atheist
out of a preying mantis.
too tired to fly
she dons a black cape
and walks home
to her condo in
San Francisco.
Gyroscope Review - !5