Monday, September 19, 2011

Mockingbird

I can hear him, 
now, even in darkness
a trickster under the moon,
bristing his feathers, 
sounding as merry
as a man whistling in a straw hat
or a squeaky gate
to the playground, left ajar
or the linging of a star
having wandered too far
from the pasture.


-Judith Harris

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