Plumage
When your chest
tubes come out
I’ll lift you
to the clouds
to join
the other
long-necked birds
crane
with liver
damage
heron
in need
of a transplant
loon
that carries extra
bones
Drag
your talons
back
to bed
Conyer Clayton is an Ottawa-based writer, musician, editor and gymnastics coach. She has 7 chapbooks, 2 albums and won The Capilano Review’s 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Award. Her debut full-length collection is We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020). More: conyerclayton.com