#NaPoWriMo Day 27
I had to write a poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun.
The Blackbird of Impermanence
The blackbird sang
the day I wed -
A song of liquid light as
the smooth Summer river flowed like a
glistening shoal of marigolds.
I heard the same song
that night I thought I'd die -
Before dawn the blackbird answered my cries with lilting laughter.
My perfect child a bruised thing of beauty burst from my inside.
She mewed like a drowned kitten.
Our eyes met.
The bird came again
In a cold place when I felt my lonely ride was done
the notes trailed into darkness
the music was gone
you were just a plain black bird
eating worms.
As my seasons turn around
the blackbird watches with golden eye
A cloak of feathers can't ward of evil
Yet if I sit and breathe I hear his fluid song once more.
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