Bird (Pin + Poem Pack)

This pin + poem pack includes an original signed poem letterpress printed onto thick 300# triplex paper + one hard enamel pin. Poem and designs by Christy NaMee Eriksen.  ------  Poem text: Bird  When your brown son tells you over dinner he thinks he's ugly. When you stutter on your own memories.When you reach for him, a table and a canyon away. His hair in your hands, a thousand falling stars, each one a wishthat has already passed. How can you describe grace to a seven year old beingraised in a broken funhouse?Mirrors so curved your face becomes dusk.Walls made of elbowsdoors made of fists.When you walk into an uppercut and say you're sorry. Why believe me, a woman with quilted skina mother with a leaking heartrising tides on my breathwhen I say you are so beautiful nothing can sink you.   When I kiss you like a papercutlike a king of spadeslike a bird born from my sleeve. When I hold you like the greatest bomb I ever made.Delicate and reckless and exquisiteso handsome every morning