Georgette Howington features 8/28

8/28/2017 Georgette Howington  hosted by J.D.
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Georgette Howington is a closet poet and short story writer who came out three years ago.  Her poems are published in Iodine, Sleet and Poeming Pigeons, among others.  Several poems won Honorable Mentions at the North American Women’s Music Festival and Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest in 2016.  As a naturalist and horticulturist, her niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters.  She is a County Coordinator and Assistant State Program Director for the California Bluebird Recovery Program and an activist in the conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years.  Georgette is also a published garden and environmental writer.  

If a Homing Pigeon Were My Lover

Fluffed and preened on the shelf

I could not help but notice

your bobbing head and piercing eyes

twisting and turning to see if I was

looking at you the way you looked at

me in that wanting way as if my

human form was a pigeon too.

How unlike me it would be to take

off into the sky, fly across the expanse

in circles feeling the wind, gliding on

our wings, not arguing about who did

not fold the laundry, or if I am too tired

to have sex tonight or being pressed

to spend time with family I don’t like

and living from moment to moment

dining on seed offerings from the keeper

moving aside to let him do all the

cleaning and arranging of our coop

while all you and I do is fly, eat, and

think about making baby pigeons…

**** Published in Poeming Pigeons, “Poems about Birds”, 2015