May 05 2006

has someone strangled the dawn chorus?

category: poetry

was their compulsive chatter too cheerful to swallow? 

it drowned the silences in someone’s life 

that someone, using a taut silk scarf,  stopped the air to their songs 

now their silences float in, riding the morning tide

 

Dunlin's fly over the incoming tide at dawn

 

note:  inspired by the theme of a night-long converation with a drunken suicidal anarchist circa 1988.  My dawn chorus is loud and clear every morning in my inbox