HOMEBODIES
Kristin Emanuel
an alpine swift can spend 10 continuous months in flight.
while urban birds
gather
&knit together
curlicues of string
candy wrappers
fine jute &wiring
nests meshed
with balloon ribbons;
the bowerbird
seduces his lover
using fragments of glass
utensils & keys;
golden-headed cisticolas
collect spiderwebs
stitching
them through
holes
punctured
in leaves.
maybe each morning
birds serenade
entanglement
that rapturous weave
between bundle &thrum
hear them sing
about the homebody—
how unfetteredly
they curate
their own nestling.
Kristin Emanuel has a passion for short form and hybrid visual poetics. Her work deals with memory, the dreaming mind, and nature. She received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas and is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Kansas.