zzzingbird : Writing

It's A Learning Experience

It's A Learning Experience

A Poem by zzzingbird


A feather boaConstrictor (I hardly know ‘er!)winds its way around my neck cascades down my crackling shoulderin the neon lights through a haze o..
Weaving Without Warping

Weaving Without Warping

A Poem by zzzingbird


Let’s take a momentand pretend there’s zen in the motion of the weft,that it’s not just string being turned into fabric.An industria..
An Ode to Plain Pasta, and to You

An Ode to Plain Pasta, and to You

A Poem by zzzingbird


We always begin with a clean slate. A limpid looking glass, almost too heavy to hold.A metallic prison holding only the fear that I will let it spill,..
I'm So Lucky She's Nearly Blind

I'm So Lucky She's Nearly Blind

A Poem by zzzingbird


The bus ride home is a long one.Not long enough, though.I’m that young man wiping the rainbow paint off his faceWith pages torn from a notebookP..
To Veer, per se

To Veer, per se

A Poem by zzzingbird


"If you fall, rise again"Is not great advicefor the racehorse,who sees through the shards of his femurthat his future's coated in gelatin and glue.Nor..
Fragments from my first forays into Soho, London

Fragments from my first forays into Soho, London

A Poem by zzzingbird


Dearest SoHolabyrinth wallshigher than the night sky can reachblocking out dirty smog and soundhome away from home away from home away from homenot ju..