ELEANORE KOSYDAR

Mysteries of a Fossil Feather

What bird

were you

of this delicate feather

and how did you die?

When did you live,

over what land fly—

where nest,

and under what skies?

Did you once alight, alive

upon this rock

where now a single feather

lies ossified?

Was your flight

adart with flits and dips,

or a long, smooth glide

of finely tuned wingtips?

Were you blue

with white-tipped wings,

did you warble,

did you sing?

Were you tiny or large

or merely a wisp

of angel dust and stars?

Eleanore Kosydar

Note: This poem was written in response to Feather

Fossil #2, a painting by Cora Brittan in the

Carnegie Gallery

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Stoned

(Canada Day, Spencer Gorge)

splayed across two boulders
at the bottom of the gorge
he lay like a fallen bird,
head oddly askew
dead to the holiday world
of revellers scrambling over rocks,
bony bare chest impossibly still . . .

above water’s tumultuous
descent
anxious whispers
struggle to bridge a gap:

is he all right?
he hasn’t moved for ages!
is he breathing?

slowly
the gaunt figure
surfaces
from numbed depths,
weakly brushes haze and tangled
waist-length hair from glazed eyes,
slowly, painfully sits up
downcast head in hands

rising at last
to trembling feet
draws threadbare shirt
over haunted frame, then stumbles
along his rock-strewn
crestfallen way

outcast,
wild
as this place
of ragged beauty
where, for a while
he strayed


ELEANORE  KOSYDAR

ELEANORE KOSYDAR

Waken Dreamer

Sleeping, your closed eyes quiver
unaware in dream that the skies shower Earth
with love: the forest floor is now a sea of stars!

Come! Rouse yourself, walk upon
the waking land, feel the breath of heaven
with the star-struck soles of your drowsy bare feet

Eleanore Kosydar

Eleanore Kosydar
76 Maple Avenue
Dundas, ON L9H 4W4

Tel: (905) 628-9092
e-mail: emkk@cogeco.ca

Eleanore Kosydar is a poet, writer and photographer whose work has
appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies. She is author of
Moon Spirit: Love Poems of A Mated Woman (Tierceron Press, 1998)
and co-author/co-publisher with husband Richard Kosydar of two colour
photographic books about the Dundas Valley under their Tierceron imprint.

The Kosydars live in Dundas, Ontario; The Dundas Valley:

Visions of Beauty (2007) is still in print.

Eleanore has been a member of the Tower Poetry Society since 1994,
and for the past decade has been webmaster for the TPS website,
www.towerpoetry.ca.

Other interests include hiking, cycling, gardening, reading and swimming.

ELEANORE KOSYDAR

Bio, picture and work to follow mid September.