The Singers.(POEMS)(Poem)
From: Poetry
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Date: 10/1/2007
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Author: Arnold, Craig
The Singers
for Boyce
They are threatening to leave us the nimble-throated singers
the little murderers with the quick pulses
They perch at the ends of bare branches their tails
are ragged and pitiful the long green
feathers are fallen out They go on eating and eating
last autumn's yellow melia berries
They do not care that you approach cold corpses
rot in the grass in the reeds
The gray-shouldered crows hobble about the wren
barely a mouthful ...
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