Brain | Suzanne Grenoble/'Bird'
Brain | Suzanne Grenoble/'Bird' Perverse organ: If you lose an arm, A leg, A breast– Are you still you? Yes. Forgetting your lines, You exit the stage Muttering nonsense, Ghostly: Are you still you? Mostly. – I say; ‘broccoli?” No. Head shake. “Celery?” Head shake. “Asparagus?” He points to the garden, green feathers emerging from snow. No. I open the vegetable drawer. He points to the cabbage. I say ‘cabbage.’ He nods and smiles for me. Wordlets whirl Decapitated, wild: Words have weighed anchor; He smiles. Having fled The ship of insanity He swims The sea of inanity. Are you still there? He is – Wanting cole slaw. Bird writes from Western Massachusetts amid a profusion of houseplants and hope.
