What’s it like to land on a branch
With bird feet?
What does the branch feel?
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It was nature
Asked human beings
To speak
And look what we’ve done.
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I like the ghosts of Victorian children—
I like their slyness of sincerity, “please mister!”
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No one has the proper telescope for “my” sea.
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Sure, I want to speak for silence
But I wake in the night
To the sounds of branches—
They say write your own book.
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I haven’t forgotten about the ghosts of Southwell.
In the morning I need to be alone
So we can talk.
Planet of the Blind 