10.27.2012

blackbirds

a crescendo of beaked voices carries
on a storm-bringing breeze
as black feathered forms,
having saturated the trees, drop
to grass sand and gravel from
steel wool sky
drawing ever nearer in their massive
flocking form as they inch southward
suddenly a soft whirring of wings
erupts from the field
and a black cloud thunders past
leaving only silence behind

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