My heart is a carrier pigeon
Each morning as the sun rises
I open her little golden cage
And give her a pet on the head
Gingerly placing a note upon her back
Giddiness bubbling in my stomach
She coos eagerly
Holding her firmly to my chest
I open my window in the kitchen
Sunlight beaming in with crisp air
I let her go
She flutters into the sky
Poking through cirrus clouds
Soaring over a sea of cement & rooftops
Stained in hues of pink
She follows the Connecticut river heading north
a change in tide to waves of rolling green valleys
The sight of your face is a beacon
she finds you with a warm smile waiting on your doorstep and landing in your soft hands
A familiar friend, you have an afternoon smoke and sit outside with her perched in your lap
Each exhale is carried in the breeze
Golden hour falls upon the oak trees across the street until
A silver moon appears sleeping in dusky indigo haze
sky scraping windows gleaming like stars in the distance from my kitchen window still open
I hear fluttering and stir to find her perched on the sill in anticipation
sighing relief I cup my hands in front of her
She hops into them joyfully
I close my eyes
Holding her firmly to my chest
and suddenly the air is perfumed with tobacco
Author Bio:
Jordan Reed is an emerging theater maker and performance artist in Bushwick NYC. Originally from MA, she is a 2017 BA graduate from the UMass Amherst Theater Department. Reed is engaged by work using movement, ensemble, comedy, horror, gender-bending, glamor, sensuality, and ritual to serve, heal, and uplift underserved communities through a lens of intersectionality and multiculturalism. Her most recent work, performed in collaboration with the Northampton MA Arts Council, is a performance art piece FLAMBOYAN, exploring intersectional feminine Puerto Rican experience through the lens of a bruja. Raízes, a poem from this piece, was selected as part of the 2019 Western MA Visual Arts & Poetry Biennial.
Each morning as the sun rises
I open her little golden cage
And give her a pet on the head
Gingerly placing a note upon her back
Giddiness bubbling in my stomach
She coos eagerly
Holding her firmly to my chest
I open my window in the kitchen
Sunlight beaming in with crisp air
I let her go
She flutters into the sky
Poking through cirrus clouds
Soaring over a sea of cement & rooftops
Stained in hues of pink
She follows the Connecticut river heading north
a change in tide to waves of rolling green valleys
The sight of your face is a beacon
she finds you with a warm smile waiting on your doorstep and landing in your soft hands
A familiar friend, you have an afternoon smoke and sit outside with her perched in your lap
Each exhale is carried in the breeze
Golden hour falls upon the oak trees across the street until
A silver moon appears sleeping in dusky indigo haze
sky scraping windows gleaming like stars in the distance from my kitchen window still open
I hear fluttering and stir to find her perched on the sill in anticipation
sighing relief I cup my hands in front of her
She hops into them joyfully
I close my eyes
Holding her firmly to my chest
and suddenly the air is perfumed with tobacco
Author Bio:
Jordan Reed is an emerging theater maker and performance artist in Bushwick NYC. Originally from MA, she is a 2017 BA graduate from the UMass Amherst Theater Department. Reed is engaged by work using movement, ensemble, comedy, horror, gender-bending, glamor, sensuality, and ritual to serve, heal, and uplift underserved communities through a lens of intersectionality and multiculturalism. Her most recent work, performed in collaboration with the Northampton MA Arts Council, is a performance art piece FLAMBOYAN, exploring intersectional feminine Puerto Rican experience through the lens of a bruja. Raízes, a poem from this piece, was selected as part of the 2019 Western MA Visual Arts & Poetry Biennial.
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