Untelling
THE OWL SAID
Ashley Bunton
Who do you sing for, blue wing?
Who sings like you, flies like you,
who stands on the wire,
on the line with you?
The birds,
I do not
know their names,
but I like them
winging it
with two arms,
running when
my mother
burned
our house down
and then built houses
for bluebirds
in its place.
We all
flew together
like birds on a line.
Ashley Bunton is a mother and a published writer, poet and journalist. Ashley was a writer-in-residence at Hindman Settlement School’s Lucy Furman Oak Ledge Writing Residency in Hindman, Kentucky.
