Monday, January 23, 2023

Who We Are With Birds

By Girard Tournesol


Like a skate’s icy spray

a charm of goldfinches bathed 

in powdered snow at the feeder 

feathers a dull winter maze


My mind wanders to an aria of canary

caged in some pet store menagerie, 

plastic castles in wood chips 

their songs of freedom


I see countless people buying them, 

taking one home in a cage 

when the right thing to do is buy them all

and set them free

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