what if / I actually - am - a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me... Phil Barnett's relationship with birds is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds - a kind of ornimorphology where rather than giving the birds human characteristics, the reverse happens, and he imagines himself as a bird.
Phil Barnett's relationship with birds, in particluar, is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds - and he occasionally imagines himself as a bird.
