Arts Alive San Antonio

Since we received positive responses to the art-poem combination we published last Monday, here’s another installment, featuring poetry by Lita Marie Bonciolini and original art work by Octavio Quintanilla, who is a poet himself, and the 2018-20 San Antonio Poet Laureate. He’s currently exploring the visual arts with his series of paintings/drawings he calls Frontextos. (See the recent Interview Express on this site for more on his current work.)

Pin Feathers
By Lita Marie Bonciolini

My cage has been a safe haven,
where I’ve been slowly acquiring
new feathers.
Salmon colored this time,
lavender tipped.

Not sleek and polished.
Instead, rather ruffled looking
like someone who is perpetually
just waking up.

Don’t be fooled by fluffy appearances.
No placid dove here resides,
but a hawk spirit patiently waits
in near readiness, to soar
and execute perfect vertical dives.

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 Inspired by a quote from Kahil Gibran: “For thought is a bird of space that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”