To the Poet Writing of Wings
- To the Poet Writing of Wings
How can muse be piqued to quiddle with quills?Backs are lustrous to the touch, skin unruffled,
yet you speak of feathers, molt, preen,as though with wings we’d live
the easeful lives of dragonflies,as though we’d drift along in dream, feeding
on the wind. No morebattering tattered rings around
some lustrous core. I mockyour feathers, dragging dust, your blades
that ache to flutter and soar, would begfor wings if wings would lift us. [End Page 146]
Dede Wilson is the author of five collections of poetry. Her first book, Glass, was published as a finalist for the Persephone Press Award, and her second, Sea of Small Fears, won the Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition. One Nightstand is a collection of light verse in forms followed by a primer to poetic forms. Eliza: The New Orleans Years has been performed as a one-woman show in Mississippi and North Carolina. Her latest collection, Near Waking, was issued in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. Dede is also the author of a five-generation memoir, Fourth Child, Second Daughter, as well as numerous published short stories. A Louisiana native, she has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 1967.
