When the Drunk Guy Sent an Injured Baby Goldfinch to the Wildlife Rehab by Uber
By Melissa Studdard
Happy National Poetry Month! We are honored to bring you poems from a special project, “Poetry in Bloom,” a collaboration with O, Miami Poetry Festival, poets Sandra Beasley and Neil de la Flor, and Dolly’s Florist. For all of April, these poems about flowers are being folded into origami and sent out with bouquets from Dolly’s. They also appear on O, Miami and on SWWIM in a variety of accessible ways, including audio, ALT text, and more.
My kid DMd me two smileys laughing tears and the note: This is something you would do, and I don’t know if that meant the drunk part or the goldfinch alone in the backseat part but I think it’s possible life may just be God telling a series of knock knock jokes so I run to answer the door and a golden flower blooms in my chest and I call it laughter and I delight in how my kid takes time to message me and a bouquet of silver flowers blooms in my chest and I call it having a kid who DMs me and another bouquet of flowers blooms in my chest and I pluck them and hand them to a homeless man and they regrow and I pluck them and hand them to a robin’s nest and they flutter down into the air around me and I am a flutter among them dancing on a picnic table at the park and I send a video of it to everyone I know and my kid is the first to respond and I am a thousand barrels of wine pouring myself into the world
Melissa Studdard is the author of the poetry collection, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, and the chapbook, Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings. Her work has been featured by PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and more. Her awards include the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Penn Review Poetry Prize, and the Tom Howard Prize for Winning Writers. See www.melissastuddard.com.
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so lovely.
Sounds like something my kids snd former students would say to me