Scott Ferry
Scott Ferry helps our Veterans heal as a RN in the Seattle area. Fill Me with Birds, his collaboration with Daniel McGinn, is now available from Meat For Tea Press. His book of prose poems, Sapphires on the Graves, is upcoming in early Summer 2024 from Glass Lyre Press. More of his work can be found at ferrypoetry.com.
song
i swallow the organs / and spit up hummingbirds
i hum a bluefeather / and kill a garden
i grow a testament / and excise a lie
the trees hang in torment / under bluesky
never are the pains throated / with joy
inside the singing i try / to remember ease
the body which carries aches / and protects
i am not the shells / nor the broken bulbs
i remember that god is a light / inside grief
smashed glass and ants / glint and bite
a humming in the torment / a torrent of promises
joy a singing in ash / a costume for nausea
little wings spit music / as a consolation
when i watch the living / i remember to breathe
not much separates the maggot / from the fly
when i consume the eucharist / blue bottles sing
and the dead wings inside me / flutter
