Three Poems

Michael Cadnum June 6, 2011 - 9:48am

The Peacock


What does he feed on,

this stalking festival,

with a gaze perpetually startled,

and a bearing so assertively free of

nest or boundary that he is either

witless or emperor of all?

 

Even the canary’s aria

is flat beside his scarlet cry,

and he drags his multicolored

mantle like so much excess of no

use but to steady the progress

of his parade....

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Michael Cadnum lives in Albany, California. His thirty-fifth book, the novel Seize the Storm, will be published in 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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