Tuesday, November 24, 2009

‘birdsong’ (november 2009)

it was a girl-
with words he hung back
pensive
waiting to see
what moves were being made

she could defeat him with silence
play Cordelia to his maddening Lear
while unrealizing
that silence was to this magpie mind
a condemnation
the damning with faintest praise

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