bird entrapped in undergarments
or a properly supported
red breasted beauty.
Either way, you don't question
a reality far less complex
than the one we're living
where the off chord whine
of a bagpipe cuckoo
with his comb-over nest
hatches new followers
who tweet and twit
our fears.
Author Bio:
Kristina England resides in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in several magazines, including Muddy River Poetry Review, New Verse News, and Silver Birch Press. Her first set of published photos appeared at Foliate Oak Literary Magazine in April 2016.