David P. Miller |
David
P. Miller’s chapbook, The
Afterimages, was published in
2014 by Červená Barva Press. His poems have appeared in Meat
for Tea, Main
Street Rag, Ibbetson
Street, Painters
and Poets, Fox
Chase Review, Third Wednesday,
Wilderness House Literary
Review, Muddy
River Poetry Review, Oddball
Magazine, Incessant
Pipe, Clementine
Unbound, and Ekphrastic
Review, among others.
Anthology appearances include Tell-Tale
Inklings #1 and three Bagel
Bards Anthologies. His poem
“Kneeling Woman and Dog” was included in the 2015 edition of Best
Indie Lit New England. David
was a member of the multidisciplinary Mobius Artists Group of Boston
for 25 years, and is a librarian at Curry College in Milton, Mass.
Conservation of Mass, in Four
Two immature birds, failed.
One at rest on the curb;
its brother toppled in the gutter.
One with a grackle’s speckled
back. The second’s plump
rust-red feather belly.
Flies make electron orbits
eccentric around rotting
nuclei. Eyes like dead cartoons.
Forty steps to the third corpse.
This one a scentless, had-been-
avian delta, flat
as the pavement
and colored the same.
Savorless wing feathers,
spurned by maggots,
creased like an origami,
beak remnant at the apex.
Everything devourable,
devoured.
Ten steps next to a sparrow
hopping from sidewalk
to pocket park.
Claimed down feather
cinched in its beak,
a treasure to cozy the nest.
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