Two More Big Bend Ditties

by Ariana Akbari

Mexican Jay in a Bluebird Tree

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If you were blueberries, I
would eat you —
juicy and ripe and sweet,
warm like a feather.

I’d pluck and hold
you like a tall tale —
close to my heart and
under my bedtime pillow.

Together, we’d stay
warm and cozy and loved —
sunlit like a noon and
quiet happy in our daylight.

River Rock Run

River rock run and turn to me
don’t speak and judge me
for my lipstick or my hands
or my hair