Trevor Burrows on Nostr: "april" by Lucille Clifton bird and bird over the thawing river circling parker ...

"april" by Lucille Clifton

bird and bird
over the thawing river
circling parker
waving his horn
in the air above the osprey’s
nest my child
smiling her I know something
smile their birthday
is coming they are trying
to be forty they will fail
they will fall
each from a different year
into the river into the bay
into an ocean of marvelous things

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