Mama bird and baby bird.
Design by Christy NaMee Eriksen. Cloisonné metal pin, 1" wide.
This pin was inspired by the poem Bird. It is available as a pin + poem pack here. Full poem text below.
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Bird
by Christy NaMee Eriksen
When your brown son tells you over dinner he thinks he's ugly.
When you stutter on your own memories.
When you reach for him, a table and a canyon away.
His hair in your hands, a thousand falling stars, each one a wish
that has already passed.
How can you describe grace to a seven year old being
raised in a broken funhouse?
Mirrors so curved your face becomes dusk.
Walls made of elbows
doors made of fists.
When you walk into an uppercut and say you're sorry.
Why believe me, a woman with quilted skin
a mother with a leaking heart
rising tides on my breath
when I say you are so beautiful nothing can sink you.
When I kiss you like a papercut
like a king of spades
like a bird born from my sleeve.
When I hold you like the greatest bomb I ever made.
Delicate and reckless and exquisite
so handsome every morning you burst
so fine our demons die just looking at you.
You, the color of a good luck penny
you, the color of harvest
you, the color of a plot twist
the color of anthems
you the color of flight.
Ain't a ray of sun in the new world
that won't wanna shine
on your face.
