Great arrestive Goldfinch,
What are we to wonder?
Where did you retrieve
That gold which you plundered?
By flap or by flutter,
Unruffled, serene,
You endure the unfolding
Of a heavenly dream.
Past dreams made trial
Of that appreciable feat.
What wonder engendered
Your life-given tweet?
That power in the sky;
That’s how you were done.
Neatly worn upon the face
You wear a mask of the sun.
Speared through by that beak,
If from heaven It spied,
God would reach for that sun
But place it back in the sky.
Darkness betwixt light,
That power now faded;
God brings to the earth
A goldfinch which is jaded.
Great arrestive Goldfinch,
What are we to wonder?
Where did you retrieve
That gold which you plundered?
By flap or by flutter,
Unruffled, serene,
You endure the unfolding
Of a heavenless dream.
A.C. Stark
Written circa April 2012
© Copyright of A.C. Stark
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