Eyes wide
I perch
Watching you watching me
Forever still.
Chipped into limestone life
Some 5000 years ago
Feathered only by fingers
They’d light cones of incense
Resting me in serene shadow
Scent pluming from hollow eyes
And the holes behind my ears.
More recently
They puzzled together
The shards in an old shoebox
Rebirthing me
Slowly
Painstakingly
Into whooooo I am.
