Two Poems
Daniel Kane, 30 April 2009
Two Ornithology Variations
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It’s OK that the material world is tenuous. However, I must remind myself to ‘grab it
by the shoulders’ and ‘give it a shake’ in case it gets cancelled entirely. If the phone rings,
I’ll pick it up on the first chirp – why wait for the second or the third? The desire to impress
in this way is depressing. Now is the time to...
