Not birds I know, dank-feathered, inky-eyed,
spinning in a ring until one breaks free,
flies in. And already I am out of bedand on the path to my father’s room,
the whole house sleeping but for him, his old face
stunned in the white light webbed on the walland I say Dad, the bird in my room.
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