| Maggie Zurawski Ballad of the Concrete Tree What is time when I am not with my head? I asked a bird in a concrete tree and it told me. Time is what my head is not. My head is only the wind that imagines me. A banker in any time can catch a bird and Choke a concrete tree or other things Too small to eat. My head is only the wind that imagines me. I ate my heart when I put my head in a concrete tree. It grew back like a starfish. A starfish has five knees. My head is only the wind that imagines me. A bird is too small to eat So it makes the sound of poetry. On the first hard day I fed it my first broken knee. I get scared when my heart sounds Like a banker choking a concrete tree. My head is only the wind that imagines me. In the battle against the banker A starfish can lose a knee. As revenge it made the rhyme that hung My body from a concrete tree. My heart laughed when it fed the bird Its last poetry. My head is only the wind that imagines me. Maggie Zurawski Index |