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Starlings

Snarls, bread trucks, yeast

breathing inside huddled bags,

and sleepers completing lives

behind their gray windows.

A whistle on the phonewires,

feathers, twitches, whistling

down to the hot loaves.

Reeds everywhere, pulse,

flesh, flutes, and wakened sighs.

An answer. Radio news

and breathers behind our windows,

birds’ new voices changing,

changed, to the unforgiving

hunger screech of immigrants.

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