


Each drop breaking
Without breaking into
The next, describes
The unrelenting, syncopated
Mind. Not unlike
The hummingbirds
Imagining their wings
To be their heart, and swallows
Believing the horizon
To be a line they lift
And drop.











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typical sparrow sings













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