In advance of our broken wings
Starlings are their own metaphor
hundreds of dark pulsars, they orbit
the paddocks, settle momentarily
in the row of blue gums
filling limbs with squabbles
a single tree
could not stand such language
Off again, swarming
back over the grass
to chaff on god knows what
rhomboidal, trapezoidal,
random constellations too fluid to name
how do they hold formation?
not one mistake
to send two small stars spinning
back to earth
hundreds of dark pulsars, they orbit
the paddocks, settle momentarily
in the row of blue gums
filling limbs with squabbles
a single tree
could not stand such language
Off again, swarming
back over the grass
to chaff on god knows what
rhomboidal, trapezoidal,
random constellations too fluid to name
how do they hold formation?
not one mistake
to send two small stars spinning
back to earth
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