VINYL POETRY

Volume 4, October 2011

BIRDIE
J. BradleyView Contributor’s Note

Cover Me In Rag And Bones

I’m inarticulate like an action figure
but my skin is made from the tin
of an empty soup kitchen; charity
begins with your hands.
To close the chasm between us
in bed, I roll out like a doughy bridge
my farmer’s tan arms wrapping
around you like beams.
I look at the last picture of us touching. 
I can make my shoulders blossom in sighs.