Thursday, January 5, 2023: Robert S. King's "Bird's Eye View of Flying South"
© 2023 marie c lecrivain Robert S. King lives in Athens, GA. His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines, including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Hollins Critic, Kenyon Review, Main Street Rag, Midwest Quarterly, Negative Capability, Southern Poetry Review , and Spoon River Poetry Review . He has published eight poetry collections, most recently Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020). His personal website is www.robertsking.info . Bird’s Eye View of Flying South In the wild fall of paradise they rise, rainbows of feathers and leaves free-flapping on an autumn breeze, flocks streaking the sky on a southbound, fleeing wind. B ut across the shadow border of skyscrapers, birds weave through mazes of power lines and windshields. Almost captiv...