Amateur

Egg hums, shell cracks

wings wet spiral-wrap

bird born to stillness.

Stillness shifts to twitch

 both scratches

and causes the itch.

Itch brings words swaddled with wings.

Words that strive toward wonder—

ideas are flutter-life, bird sings,

Sings, then stops, lost in thought

murk and muddle, blocks the flux

Fingers blindly search for nativity

Nativity waits till the star emerges

Huddles in shards of shell until wings unfurl 

bright words line up on the wire.

Wire of words like birds that

queue up at the feeder

spilled and overfilled.

Overfilled; gravid

 Delphic ovule poised for another little budgie,

whose beak already bickers with the egg.

BIO

Annie Fahy is a clinician in bio-behavioral health who integrates creative practice into healing and resilience-building work with individuals and teams. Trained by Pat Schneider in 1998 in the Amherst Writers & Artists method, she continues to use writing as a tool for reflection, transformation, and embodied change.