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A Moment Stretched Across the Room
From:  Past Lives, Present Places:  Later Poems, by Teresa Allen

A moment stretched across the room,
Where spools of yarn play with cats,
Where windows open to Arizona Sunshine,
In winter’s polluted but wonderful air.
Where trees outside are silly creatures,
Offering branches to the Sweet Songs of Nightingales,
That are never there.

Here are house finches, males with red Shakespeare collars --
To decorate their feather pride.
They come to the window for seed,
That I put there to amuse the cats.

And here are warblers, thrashers and Gila woodpeckers
That make houses in idols
Tall and green
With trifurcated thorns.

The moment Now wears no clothes,
Though sometimes,
In it,
you may behold,
The collar of a nightingale.