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We Can’t Escape the Fact That We’re Not Enough for Each Other
by Jane McKie
We Can’t Escape the Fact That We’re Not Enough for Each Other - Jane McKie
We Can’t Escape the Fact That We’re Not Enough for Each Other
Brambling, bullfinch, chaffinch, crossbill,
goldfinch, greenfinch, hawfinch, redpoll,
a new edge between us scissors
through air, routing music
from throats, birds from perches.
They spill, forming
flurries like snow but
tough as flint
and I feel every atom of
their shifting,
flickering wingbeats.
Nightjar, nuthatch, dipper, pipit,
woodlark shorelark, skylark, swallow,
I had birds once.
I let them go.
from Kitsune (Cinnamon Press, 2015), ? Jane McKie 2015, used by permission of the author