Birdsong is Another Word for

Sweating through the cotton balls             If I could

walk forever             I couldn’t              How many

times I put my ear to the same glory

hole             Kneeling akimbo in patchwork dirt     

             If she said it was a flight risk I would

believe her             These days I pay for my own

skin to grow             Officers found me eighteen

kilometres away from her bedframe     

Told you             Public decency says get off     

             There’s a line behind you             At least one man

ages to migrate for spring             A common

magpie furnishes its nest with my ear     

             Thrusts its beak inside and eats it out                                Noise

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