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She is Silent Like a Songbird

from That Towering Blue by James Wylder

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From "Cascade".

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She is Silent Like a Songbird

she is silent like a songbird
when the wind blows through rightly
and the trees shake their rattles with the notes
she sings so absent

there is no chorus but that which sits outside her
longing to play the harmony to her twitter
but the chitter never comes
and the leaves lie dashed on the ground,
and the clouds piteously bury them come December
but she is silent like a songbird
there are so few songbirds anymore
so we wait for her

they say without alley cats there would be more of her kind
but I had forgotten the sound
and mewing brewed with the scratching
and the one eyed kitten killed for a yarn
but where were the song birds now?
dead or fled
“come back” the wind billows
the trees shake their barren arms for your sake
you do not come

and there is silence
the saddest song
you never sang

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from That Towering Blue, released May 1, 2016

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James Wylder Elkhart, Indiana

Author of "An Eloquence of Time and Space", "10,000 Dawns", and "Cryptos."

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