Teach Me Dear Bird

Shelley: “Teach me half the gladness

   That thy brain must know…”

I thought today for the good of us all let us be Romantic poets–even if you live in Brooklyn;

Perhaps you live in Baghdad. God Almighty may you stay Romantic. Brother & Sister. May you hope that the birds have joys to share.

Surely flight is a harmonious madness.

& these last few weeks, autumn coming, I’ve been walking under the alder trees

Seeing birds for the first time in my life–seeing them risen, updraft, sincerest laughter, sincerest laughers…

Against them, and thinking of Shelley

One sees the jarring and inexplicable frame

Of this wrong world…

God Almighty may you stay Romantic. Brother & Sister.     

S.K.

Author: stevekuusisto

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