songbird

songbird sings a new song like sunshine

bursting through the crack at the foot

of a basement cellar door

she welcomes the morning

as her wiggling toes consider the cool

of her hardwood floors

she remembers the murmur of time

beating on her back to keep moving

the bleeding pen in her pocket

songbird wraps her blue-stained sheets

around her shivering shoulders

while she hums her morning hymn