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The delicate, azuline
egg lies fractured,
its only impurity,
alone beneath
the brush like candy;
a present from the rabbit
that cannot be denied.

My body folds in half
reaching under
the prickly leaves,
fingers prudent as they
move to embrace it.
The tip of my pinkie
grazes a warmth
softer than pongee.

I relent to the ground
face in the moist dirt,
finding the maker there
half breathless, perfect
round black eyes
alight with fear
stemmed from paralysis.

It cannot move,
it cannot convince me away
with its sharp honeyed beak.
I touch the vermilion breast
of feathers before lifting
the bird with both hands
towards my face.

This precious one, the
one that lays the eggs
the color of sky, the color of
tropical waters, the color of
candy sweet and tempting,
shudders over my palms
breath halting quiet.

Liquid swells over the eyes,
shiny obsidian jewels,
its body limp in my hands.
Sickness overwhelms
the maker,
now the taker
of eggs and sky.

I place my pink, fleshy lips
around the gold beak,
careful to seal them with
my symmetry and love,
blowing in a wisp
of breath, tiny lungs lifting
a tiny red breast
to inflate them like
magical balloons.

The maker gives me the mark,
tells me the secrets to dying,
to formulating eggs and calculating
thermal projections of sky wind.

I cannot begin to understand
how far it will take me,
above and below
the blue perfections.

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Aleathia Drehmer was born in the '70s to a set of wanderlust parents. She has an odd sense of humor and likes to be observant. Writing started as a portal to another dimension when she was 10 years old... she is still floating in space. Her work has been published in Laura Hird, The Cerebral Catalyst, Poet Plant Press, Haggard & Halloo, The Clockwise Cat, Outsider Writers, Word Riot, Silenced Press, and Motherkisser. She has upcoming work in Rural Messengers Press, Cherry Bleeds, and Mystery Island. She is a staff writer for Outsider Writers and a co-editor at Zygote in My Coffee. A collection of her work can be visualized at www.myabdication.blogspot.com.

posted 11.12.07.

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