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Article: Blackbirds.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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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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