Charlotte Moore
a poem by
Birds
The overhead wires get mixed up
in the branches of trees that are
Utterly bare. Sunset like a barcode.
Imagine what the birds would do to us
If they had historical proof
Of just how good it used to be.
No need for discussion —
It just was. The sky was bigger.
Charlotte
Moore
(she/her)
Charlotte Moore is a writer and visual artist from Lisburn, currently living in Dublin. She was the editor of Icarus Magazine 23/4 and, most recently, has had work published in And Other Poems.