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Blackbirdsย 

Two poems arrived recently. Blackbirds wing their way regularly through my writing and imagination, harbingers of spiritual wisdom. I notice them everywhere I go. These will speak for themselves.

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silent black bird

swooping and swaggering
in my line of visionย day upon day

calling me
beyond the โ€˜cawโ€™

past the cry of my heart
into deeper silence still

you drink at the waterfall
pick through the grass
never saying a word

4/30/2012

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median

a crow just landed on the median wall
my husband announces as we drive down I-40

leaving our childhood homes behind us
and I wonder (he says sardonically) why?

I think to myself:
because . . . that is my lifeย 

what?! I ask the crow impatiently
what!? I demand of my heart

the crow always says the same thing
listen

5/6/2012