New Books in Poetry Nikki Wallschlaeger “I Would Be the Happiest Bird” (Horseless Press, 2014)
Horseless Press, 2014
It is transient, it is migratory, it embarks from the restlessness of youth and family and lands in self-actualization.
I’ve never/ thought of myself as much of a threat, sitting here in a room w/ cats & a space heater trying to figure out/ how birds flying in the sky still has relevant meaning, how not caring if it does means more than// a thesis or carefully splattered book (the trick is believing in yourself long enough so that the words/ come out more or less honest, pitting vulnerability against craft.)
I Would Be the Happiest Bird interrogates our “where?” and calls to piece of us that still looks up and wonders, “if I could fly, how far would my wings take me from here and would I ever come back?”
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