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November 05, 2020 Arts + Scene » Poetry

Downpour

By J. Commander

A shower of starlings
Splash into the feeder
Overspilling upon the ground
Invisible against the black soil

Until they burst like a geyser
Perceptible for but a moment
Swimming the currents of night
Evaporating among the clouds

Reigning over us all

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