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a small black wing
without its bird
skitters across the road

scissor-tail flycatchers
rise and fall and rise and fall
between the wires
like a wonky oscilloscope
that has forgotten its creator

such a curiosity!
is it the hurricane?
the pull of the blue moon?
the vacuity of multitudes
holding a collective breath
as we try to remember
the first half of our
last sentence?

under the bell jar
the white feather falls
alongside a coin

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