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stephen kuusisto   The Darkling Thrush  
 
kuusisto photo   Always answers are at hand,
flight's body above sere grass,
or the slow feet of the blind
working sun white mysteries
of sod, roots, trunks of ash;

the neutral winds
are alive enough
to spin in milliseconds
exact things
lifted into words.

All birds a-wing
know the bordered fields
of sightlessness, those places
which shape
my pond edged steps:

their music draws across the lawns
like ghosting stars.


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