Impulse buy
At the tack-n-feed store
Two for ten, my best fowl friends
Under the hot lamp in a cardboard box of shavings
You grew too big for my living room, too big to nap on my collar bone
We walked, I talked, you quacked, we swam
Splashing, diving in the People Fountain
I overfed you; I'd never clip your wings
Too fat to fly and too white to hide
From the raccoons in Renton

Down feathers in my hair
Remind me of
Us