Thursday, March 21, 2013

What the Crow Showed Me


I had no use for words, no use to feel
the triple wind, the tripped and fickle  
words I couldn’t say. A thirsty bird,

I swallowed loss, drank coffee in a demitasse,
and saw my mother’s cotton sheet
douse dawn and dream the wrinkled day.

And I broke my wings on songs
my father couldn’t play.

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