birdsong

the song somewhere outside

it’s not as if
it’s the city
tall and dark with
tall-building shadow
and all that
but there is a bird
that sounds real
brave
somehow
to be singing
over the risk of traffic
and I wonder
what it challenges
in song
perhaps to say there’s hopefulness
in town today
and I will represent that
for you
while I may

c l couch

photo by Evaldas Grižas on Unsplash


No Birds in Gaza
(from Rosemerry)

An unknown casualty of war
Except for those who know

How nature has
Absconded
Or simply stayed there
To take it
Based on exigence
Of seasons
We think of as
A cycle of life

Demolished
However
Goes the cycle

With reason
That which left
Shall not return

With those who are destroyed
On site
Well
They
Shall go to God
And not come back
To us

So that there’s nothingness
Which is
The cause of war

CLC

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2024/07/07/at-four-forty-six-a-m-when-i-cant-sleep/


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