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bird holocaust
Red-bellied woodpecker wedged
under robin redbreast under blue jay
under black-capped chickadee
Snatched by the five-toed
cat one by one mid-flight
You and you and you and you
March forward ignore the itch on your back keep your hands to yourself and your business outside picked lines and fences erected under your nose dripping gasoline, milk, blood from planes diluted in cans of beer divides you from you and you from you bound in plastic rings for ease of distribution
Banned delicacies
Wrap me in that leaf
before you leave
the big one on your left
just to the right of the
smudge on my cheek
Folds of green cut
bitter bile behind
my tongue left last night
by flies making cheese
in my mouth
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