R L Swihart's The White Bird

My poem "The White Bird," first published in the now defunct Pif Magazine, lends its title to my latest book, which is now available at Amazon.

The White Bird

Or more precisely the oracular white wings

tracing an impossible curve

(above and below the axis of the body)

against the blue

above the shore

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Before morning,

by some Aristotelian trick,

the shore was gone

and only the motion returned

White, but only the word