Unpair - Arto Lindsay

Go on split a lark

Light up a nightingale

Unmask mockingbirds

Captives and their songs

Take steel to an owl

Scarlet experiment

Unpair butterflies

Central to my song

Take a toucan apart

Divide a vulture in flight

A parrot’s got heart

Captive to my song

I was lost and breathing hard

In the trees gone tan and gray

Didn’t dare look in their eyes

Or count the days