Birds 21-23: Pinback Buttons

Here's a set of three more poems inspired by Becky's Pinback Buttons.
Thanks, Becky, for inspiration well beyond buttons.

Bat Babies	Bat Babies Bat mommies know that howling haloed babies will too soon unfurl translucent wings against the mottled moon and glide into a patient night that waits to take them whole. Bat babies only know they need to go.
Scribble Girls	Scribble Girls Miserable in their paper-doll skins, the scribble girls release their spring-wound souls, unwrap the ragged trappings of their tethered frames, bite down through bitter strokes that slash and bind. Everything they’ve long withheld unravels in a steady hum, until it all goes loose, goes numb, gapes wide, until it’s done, until there’s nothing more to hide. No longer dumb.
Beasts of Burden	Beast Burdens Kiwi cannot fly. Platypus is shy. Dodo wants to die. Oh, wait, it did.

Birds Howevermanybehind...

Can only say life has been allowed to get in the way of the writing (woefully predictable, I know, but life is like that)... however, a small flock inspired by Becky's pinback buttons is coming soon. Honest. I think.

9/11/07 UPDATE:
Ha! Sport the first...

XX. The Janes

Each Jane wants a new name:
a lush name, brightly fragrant,

brash syllables that shimmy,
sporting cadence and strength.

A name that tumbles headlong,
makes a mark, dares to spark.

Every Jane, on the inside, is alight.

Image of "The Janes," from Sweetie Pie Press (by Becky Johnson)