Siete Pajaros

This morning I walked

and saw seven birds,

siete pajaros,

lined up on a bare branch

of a tree

waiting for something.

They stared at me silently

with piercing black eyes;

without a sound

without a word.

So I turned away.

As I looked back,

there are still seven birds,

siete pajaros,

lined up on a bare branch

of a tree

waiting for something.

Daly Martinez is a writer and visual artist currently living in Montgomery Village, Maryland. She is a student at Montgomery College and intends to major in foreign languages. Daly likes to experiment with art, whether it’d be a collage, a painting, or even something bizarre with miscellaneous objects. Her writing has been published in the school literary magazine Temet Nosce (Watkins Mill High – Gaithersburg, Maryland) and in the poetry anthology Immortal Verses.

You can read her poems and short stories at http://www.writerscafe.org/writers/Timehopper