has someone strangled the dawn chorus?
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
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
November 13th, 2006
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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