[obol] Bird poem

[Nancy Brown]

Hi obolers - For those of you so inclined. I know this is a bit off bird sightings, but a friend emailed this to me and it helped me resign myself to staring at a computer all day. I hope you enjoy it too.
 
Nancy Brown
NE Portland
 
Poem: "Why I Need the Birds" by Lisel Mueller, from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems. © Louisiana State University Press. Reprinted with permission. Why I Need the Birds When I hear them callin the morning, beforeI am quite awake,my bed is already travelingthe daily rainbow,the arc toward evening;and the birds, leadingtheir own discreet livesof hunger and watchfulness,are with me all the way,always a little ahead of mein the long-practiced mannerof unobtrusive guides.By the time I arrive at evening,they have just settled down to rest;already invisible, they are turninginto the dreamwork of trees;and all of us together —myself and the purple finches,the rusty blackbirds,the ruby cardinals,and the white-throated sparrowswith their liquid voices —ride the dark curve of the earthtoward daylight, which they announcefrom their high lookoutsbefore dawn has quite broken for me.
 
 
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