Birdsong
You’d come in the front door
and whistle, I’d be upstairs
and whistle back
like a pair of tits sounding
a return to the nest,
our intuitive call and response,
a sudden shared slap stick
rousing the dog from its daydream,
like two trainee referees
who’d just passed their exams,
our shrill crisp shrieks
startling the air!
Whooee-uueet!
Whooee-uueet!
Whooee-Whooee
WhoooWhoo-oowheet.
Wheetwwhhoowhhoowhoowheet!
hello fool,
hi idiot
not even that, simply
I exist
I exist too
Colin McGuire is a Glaswegian living in Edinburgh. In 2018 he published Enhanced Fool Disclosure with Speculative Books and in 2020, he received the Ignite Fellowship, from the Scottish Book Trust. He was chosen as a mentee for Queer Writing Scotland Project to write his first piece of prose in 2024. www.colinmcguirepoet.co.uk IG: mcguire_alot