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i cut the bottom off a plastic bottle filled it with bird seed stuck it to my kitchen window waited for over a week nothing happened
this morning pouring milk in my cheerios looked up and there it was light brown and red feathers a sunflower seed cracking open in her mango-orange beak
its tiny head crest the always present exclamation point as she studied me through the window’s glass
This poem will appear in How a Civilization Ends (link to https://www.mouthfeelbooks.com) and is reprinted with permission of the author.
Richard Vargas earned his B.A. at Cal State University, Long Beach, where he studied under Gerald Locklin, Dora Polk, and Richard Lee. He edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980, and twelve issues of The Mas Tequila Review from 2010-2015. Vargas received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico, 2010, where he workshopped his poems with Joy Harjo. He was recipient of the 2011 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference Hispanic Writer Award. He was on the faculties of the 2012 10th National Latino Writers Conference and the 2015 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. Published collections: McLife (2005); American Jesus (2007) Guernica, revisited (2014); How A Civilization Begins (Mouthfeel Press, 2022), and a fifth book, leaving a tip at the Blue Moon Motel, to be published by Casa Urraca Press in 2023. He currently resides in Wisconsin, near the lake where Otis Redding’s plane crashed.
April 2022
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