The Wendy Bird Poems | Nettie Farris

Nettie Farris is the author of Communion (Accents Publishing, 2013), Fat Crayons (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and the micro-chapbook Story (Origami Poems Project, 2016). A book reviewer, she writes the feature Spotlight on a Press for Blue Lyra Review. She read Peter Pan to each of her three sons.

Unicorn in the Garden

I keep

tying

to

decipher

these

messages

you

sent to

me—

but all

the

letters

keep

floating

a-

round—

they

keep

re-

arrang-

ing

them-

selves

into

pattern-

less

blobs—

I’m

begin-

ing

to

think

that

(per-

haps)

you aren’t

really

saying

any-

thing

meaning-

ful

at all.