Article: Blackbirds.(Poem)

 
BLACKBIRDS 
 
   Who wrote these lyrics? 
   Glottal, the sound of water, worried 
   over jagged rocks. Then, louder-- 
   blackbirds flocking in the pines. 
   The dogs twirl and snap the air, the birds, 
   a near riot, rise. 
   Our year-old son, wide-eyed 
   against my shoulder, begins to wave, 
   his fingers like little tongues 
   mouthing, No one here can love 
   or understand me, his song lost 
   in the protest of the flock. 
   The first to break are already 
   a quarter-mile gone. Birdbrains, 
   they ...

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