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Open Poetry #51

Cunningham

KJOTT
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since 2012-12-26

Posts 87
Canada

0 posted 2021-05-09 08:19 PM

Perched, a red-winged blackbird watching me,
its fencepost newly staked, bark on, topside down.

At arm’s length, rusted fence pliers bounce along a span of wire.
One. Two. Three. “Hemlock, see, twists over time—”
that’s Cunningham’s voice, “stretches the wire.
Set one post wrong-way-to and it’ll sag right there.”

Come a day I recall Seamus Heaney
and with newfound pride—my own name
and that red-winged blackbird there,
down Vernon River way.

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[Seamus Heaney, renowned Irish poet, wrote the fabulous poem, St. Kevin and the Blackbird.]

kevinjtaylor

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