Saturday, April 13, 2013

Hitchcock's Birds, a poem.


The thundercloud of small beating wings

Signals the approach of flying things

Death is the only song the flock sings

Strange what such a simple sickness brings



Yet there - between us and them - it sits

Temptation just too great to resist

Avian plans just cease and desist

Our fates delayed, our good fortune kissed



A freshly washed car summons each bird

Beating wings stop and silence is heard

Could it be that the disease is cured?

Nope. They just had to take a small... break.


-Mark Gronwald, 2013

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