Bird (Pin + Poem Pack)

This pin + poem pack includes an original signed poem letterpress printed onto thick 300# triplex paper + one hard enamel pin. Poem and designs by Christy NaMee Eriksen. 

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Poem text:

Bird 

When your brown son tells you over dinner he thinks he's ugly.

When you stutter on your own memories.
When you reach for him, a table and a canyon away.

His hair in your hands, a thousand falling stars, each one a wish
that has already passed.

How can you describe grace to a seven year old being
raised in a broken funhouse?
Mirrors so curved your face becomes dusk.
Walls made of elbows
doors made of fists.
When you walk into an uppercut and say you're sorry.

Why believe me, a woman with quilted skin
a mother with a leaking heart
rising tides on my breath
when I say you are so beautiful nothing can sink you.  

When I kiss you like a papercut
like a king of spades
like a bird born from my sleeve.

When I hold you like the greatest bomb I ever made.
Delicate and reckless and exquisite
so handsome every morning you burst
so fine our demons die just looking at you.

You, the color of a good luck penny
you, the color of harvest
you, the color of a plot twist
the color of anthems

you the color of flight.

Ain't a ray of sun in the new world
that won't wanna shine
on your face.