05-01-2017, 05:51 PM
(05-01-2017, 04:02 AM)just mercedes Wrote: @Teagan - I've really enjoyed your poems- but have a confession. I thought you were a woman. The name threw me I guess. Assumption. Doh. I thought - Now there's a strong woman. Never questioned it until I read the 'he' in this poem.
Birds are notoriously hard to genderfy. If they have a similar difficulty, then Teagan's and/or the protagonist's is still in doubt as well.
@Teagan: Liked your poem -- the birds, how 'coffee' worked, and (I'm always a sucker for this) its self-referential heart.
P.S. As David Bowie once remarked: "Androgynous?"
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions