Chloe

15

Residence

The resident cardinal is outside
again
Red feathers flying
in the shape of wings
Black eyes and beak-rim-
Cutouts against blood-
Dried, perhaps?
It is the dead of summer
Now
Blood drips down again;
Melted by the heat of summer.
The resident cardinal is outside
again
Melting down.
Flies fester in the feathers.