SurVision Magazine

Goldfinch


A goldfinch with a Luna moth in its beak realised it might have caught the moon. Its quarry seemed to make everything move with it: leaves, flowers, long spindly fingers of twigs. You name it. Even manmade objects left on the path: crowns of beer bottle caps, filter papers curled into cocoons, a plastic water bottle flattened like a pancake. To wield such power would be incredible. You would be a god. The goldfinch could elevate itself to be the leader of the goldfinches. A couple walking by made the bird hide. They were talking about poetry and how the human heart almost presented itself in their open palms after reading a poem on grief. "Now that's real power", the goldfinch thought to itself, flying after the humans to learn more about this thing more valuable than the moon, than Luna moths.





D A Angelo is a UK-based poet, whose work appears in Eclectica Magazine, Free the Verse, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Sage Cigarettes, Flights of the Dragonfly, Petrichor Mag, Literary Yard, Rabid Oak, Bluehouse Journal, etc. etc. He was shortlisted for the 2023 Manchester Poetry Prize.