Kingfisher

1930s coast, gulls inside the grey.

sterile noon
 
a ward at two. Therapist says,
What is your name?
What year is it? 

grandmother

she knew the word for every wing,
every call, every blue – 
her hand raised toward sky
and it stayed sky

   Picture of a window
sky
   Picture of a window
sky 
   
mother  
blue velvet, a slash of it – 
her dress, and the bird
crossing the water

      kingfisher, kingfisher

1930s coast
her hands shade her eyes
gulls inside the grey 

she points to her own hand
   wing-vein, 
   word for daughter

      (the kitchen window where starlings blacked the light)

she touches it 

        mother 
moth

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