Saturday, January 17, 2026

Antoinette Vella Payne

Courting Feathers Caught in a Whirl


I only want transparency

Soft caresses on my cheek

Plucked from

Tradition


Filled with promise

Good fortune in the plume

Scribbling of old

Scratching paper


Certain things you just don’t say

Out loud like ,”I love you “

To your neighbors  

Or strangers


No one wants to hear

Christmas colors

Meshed in the Easter time of

Revival


Pastels gone overboard in deep

Blues brushed against

Brown & grey & white feathers  

Flounce of it touching ground


Holding court

Singing a holy mantra

Under the covers

Where warmth settles at night


She loves me

Pluck

He loves me not

Bare birds blunder about


Dry leaves gather 

I swim with death

Feeling overwhelmed

Coming up for air



I needed all your words today 

This Easter time of revival 

Collecting sweets in remembering Lord Jesus 

So close to God the space between is lost


Save for swoosh of air born here

Where He is Risen

Whirling wheels gather 

In multiplicitéy stopped and static


Listening loud

You’re on your own

Getting over petty illusions of

Exclusion


Whirling gatherings 

Filled in with tiny white daisies

Clues dripping down in sstalagmiet

Under the concrete bridge in the park


Reading the Tarot so that

We do not talk about you and I

In this season of

Passion fruit’s decline 


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