birdcage no.1
kinetic book, single edition
paper, transparencies, whistle bird, eggshells, broken glass, wire, chopin
~fall, 2006
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too late, too late the bird did call
and from his sparkled palace fall
soon stitched then glued upon his perch
and spinning in an endless search
the notes he sees and sings aloud
but stuck beneath a paper cloud
piano in b minor flat
his nocturne always staring at
he sings and spins within his cage
and with no hands to turn the page-
stuck within a paper book
with five clear sides for all to look
from eggshells broken glass and all
he finds himself still within walls
but when the music takes refrain
we know that he shall hatch again
