The Green Tricycle: Issue #6: Sea: Kirby Wright

Issue 6:
Sea
Kirby Wright

At Half Moon Bay, San Francisco

I believe the shadows of birds, wings
full of dark angel, feathered arms

heading for beach. This is a movie,
the wings as frames flickering by.

The sun plays tragic hero, bleeds
to the sea at the bottom of the hill.

Boy on the dune watches birds
fly in before the big rain,

his .22 waiting for beaks.
Birds move with one conscience,

block pieces of sun, build
fragments over the blond sand.

Ocean the temperature of love.
Boy triggers the shadows.

Now is history
as fast as the mind remembers.

~Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright, an award winning poet, recently completed his first novel, which is set in Hawaii, where he resides. Email.