FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: CITY LIVING Send up to three poems on the subject of or just using either the words city and/or living totaling up to 150 lines in length in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on February 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: City Living will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Jackie Chou

The Gull Feather


What do we do,

now that I've found you

like you knew I would?


Am I just a white feather

falling from a gull

in the smoky city

to slip off your shoulder

by a brush of your hand?


So light,

so light is my touch,

that you do not remember me,

and I cannot bring us back

to the same sky again.




Fairy Tale


Stand by me

on the balcony,

for I will give you a fairy tale life.


Don't be discouraged

by the dust on the concrete,

the pot of wilting poinsettias.


Behold the view of the city,

let every lit window

turn into a star for you,

my most deserving prince.


My mind is a rosebud,

ready to burst into a blossom,

and my heart a garden,

welcoming you at all times.


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