Her eyes were frostbitten
as the tears streamed
down her cheeks.
Two blue birds
took flight from her chin
and my name stung upon her tongue.
A last season
as this love affair had its Winter
in the middle of Spring.
My lips froze together
as she pleaded for me
to stay one last time.
Each word sprouted feathers,
small blue birds fluttered from her mouth.
They swooped at my heart
and pecked at it for love beats.
Their tiny beaks only found ice
covered rib cage, and my tundra forged heart.
As each of her birds tried
to pry me open, the subzero of my silence
captured them and they froze.
Each one fell to the ground to shatter
into tiny fragments of her tears.
I didn’t know how to say goodbye
any other way.
Each farewell populated wings
deep in my throat
and I found my mouth full of sparrows.
All of them wanted to scream
good riddance to her blue birds,
cold shoulders, and teenage drama love affair.
I kept my lips closed
and let each bye peck inside my throat
instead of find a home to roost
in her now vacant heart.
Poetic Trials 