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The Migration Habits of Two Species

Appeared in the Spring and Summer 2005 issue.

nervous birds
seeming to stitch together
the warning clouds of winter
as they fly away

nervous humans
pretending to patch together
the edges of a shared life
growing more ragged every day

sensing times and seasons
they go

for better or worse
we stay

View bio information and additional poems published in Half Drunk Muse on the author's main archive page.