William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

After the Fall

Why does the bird sing? Because it will?
Because it must? Because it can?

As the child is a poet, the child is a man.
And the man goes out on a limb.

Why does the man sing?
To break, and to bend.

To break . . . . . and to bend.

 

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