May 05 2006

has someone strangled the dawn chorus?

tag: 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

one thought on “has someone strangled the dawn chorus?”

  1. :: Wendy ::No Gravatar (published 106 comments) thinks:

    In the UK the ‘dawn chorus’ is a common way to refer to the birdsong at dawn. The phrase is not generally recognised amongst my friends in the NW USA

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