Sunday, December 10, 2017

Beaks Valentine

I used to think birds were
The hidden orchestration of the world
Not the sun and the stars
 
But there’s a quarrel
Between words and lexicons
Where our lives are flown
 
Way out on the shore-road
Where our feelings sleep in a hut
Constructed of sea stones
 
But there are birds everywhere you go
Words flying around
Carried upward to die unseen
 
Clutching in their beaks
All the unsayable things
Words can only dream

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