A provincial poet and birder,
I come and go about the world,
unarmed,
just whistle my way along,
submit
to the sun and its certainty,
to the rain’s violin voice,
to the wind’s cold syllable.
In the course
of past lives
and preterit disinterments,
I’ve been a creature of the elements
and keep on being a corpse in the city:
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