Cowbird

Neck and head iridescently green

but they named you cowbird

that dull and thickly minimal name

cowbird

I am sorry that’s your name

stuck to you like manure on a green

rubber pac boot

Green rubber pac boot

which is the absolute of muddles and featherless

not your black green body

or the dusty soft brown entirety of your women

Cowbird you are sprightly

the lead out of spry jumpers

airborne body washing unseen waves of air

wings take angle ungrounded

rise in a bristle to the nearest branched balcony

Cowbird you are a covenant

of iridescent song

your nest the breaking open of day

transmitted from a flash of pollen