Michelle Penn – augury

          inside stairwells                       girls flock                                   kicking off                       their shoes           school uniforms morph                       to plastic plumage           beak-masks elastic                       bird-feet                                   discarded                                               in a heap                                                                       (undressed triangles                                                            of orange felt                                                                        muted)                                   skin strafes cement                       words pass                                               (secret rules                                                            piling up like                                               eggshells)                                   their calls           echo off the steps         they take                       each other’s soundings                                                            (strokes of                                                                        kind fury)                                   learn to […]