Didi Menendez

Didi Menendez is the publisher of MiPOesias Magazine (www.mipoesias.com). She lives in Miami with her children and dogs. She is putting together the first poetry at sea event taking place in May of 2006 (http://www.mipoesias.com/Volume19Issue3Gudding/sea2006.html). Her poetry has been published online and in print. If Fidel Castro drops dead, she is not going back to Cuba.

The Dead Birds On My Lap

The birds started to fall on my lap

one by one --

just like the baby bird

that fell into the mouth of my black dog

after the mama threw her fledging

off the nest forcing it to fly.

I could not stop the birds

from falling onto my lap.

He does not love me.

It started with the one that flew

into my window as I sped down

the highway and died in my backseat.

Her neck perfectly twisted

after hitting my chest.

My head bopping to a song

just like the dog on the dashboard.

You know those birds --

the ones that lift

your toes off

the ground.

I am sure you have met these birds.

Of course you have.

And if you have not,

I am sorry

For even in death,

It is still better to have loved than….

Did you know that a ton of feathers

weighs the same as a ton of bricks?