NCPS Poet Laureate Award Poem 1996

Illusion © by David T. Manning

	

                Bird

                          broken against

                               my window

                flew into illusion

                hard against reality


                as in my poem

                flown to you

                        hard against you


                leaving part of me

                            on the glass.

Originally published in the North Carolina Poetry Society's 1996
Award-Winning Poems. Used here with the permission of the poet.