lessons_from_tufted_titmouse
tender_square turn yourself into an agent of dusk,
woodland-edger. canopies of sugar
maple shake their veins and venules
to circulate the honey of your song
against the atmosphere—don’t diminish
your voice. mercury’s magnetism made
your plumage silver, your beaded eyes
hematite and probing. when life gives
you peanuts, bust your beak like
a pickaxe on the fibers of the shell,
the way you did when you emerged
from the egg your mother birthed,
breaking in instead of busting out.
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