main tail or wing things
hollow feathers, sharp spines or a bird-birthed pen,
yet again an old word for pan pipes, or the weaver's spindle
fabric in cylindrical folds molded
or old porcupine spines finely hand-worked
into boxes
a beautiful and appeasing thing
can spring
from a word
fixed on
flight and protection
connected
deeply
to creating
as
some words
are
