6 Birds
1
a bird flew into sky
wrote a long sentence
2
a bird died in the yard
November
crashed into a pine
a novel
of her journey
3
winter arrives
birds depart
cabin white alone
in morning woods
a long wing
stretches in sleep
4
pigeons against the sky
a dusk
5
bird
on lamppost
at the street corner
busy beneath the flag
suddenly flew up
and away and away
6
a bird flew by
slowly like a barge
past the bank
full of black
coal–deep
under water
In Gerrit’s House
people said the ocean
was over there
with clouds and sand
but mint swayed in the breeze
each second
green grass over withered
a bird woke a bell
when a sun scorpion
passed its summer
Gloucester
shining in the dusk
golden feet of cranes
city flying on the ocean, waves
beaming from its saxophone–
gilded memory blowing
against rocky coast
YONGHONG GU is a poet from Suzhou, China who lives in the United States. Gu has been a visiting scholar at UMass Boston while at work on her first novel. She has studied history, literature, business, and worked in education and business.