what_birds_do
rt "birds don't sing in the jungle, they screech in pain." ~werner hertzog 090309
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nom kill us with songs 090309
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native p fly
away

(we learn this early)
090918
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zedel look down on the flightless 090920
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just like me suddenly appear
every time
you are near
091001
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raze they remind us what we were before we forgot how to use our wings. 250408
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ovenbird Show us that to fly, you must breathe so deeply that air fills the hollows of your bones. 250409
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ovenbird Peck each other to death. Sometimes.

Sometimes when you go looking for beauty you get a heap of blood and feathers instead.
250410
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ovenbird Live their lives without a bladder. I did not know this until recently. 250411
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ovenbird Let instinct show them how to weave the future. 250723
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ovenbird find their way by feel
succumb to circadian whispers
orient with memories borrowed from their ancestors
travel the rails of the earth's magnetic field

and so it is that I find my way
to a place I've never been
along a flyway paved with half remembered songs
my body locked on to something
inevitable
250724
what's it to you?
who go
blather
from