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For the Birds

from Open Hearth by Shane Murphy

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With all-too-familiar bones you rattled around--
a shattered hip, some slipped gears. Then, just hummingbirds
eye-level in a makeshift home, hospital-cozy,
with red shag, bedpans, a throat
full of stories.

Old age seems a troubled childhood:
the birds we dream of being, we become--caged and lonely.
Death is for the birds.

I sweep the stairs and my eyes of pollen.
I beckon spring to nest here, with its hummingbirds
and a makeshift god. May the earth
be cozy. The topsoil in my hand
is a fistful of memory.

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from Open Hearth, released February 1, 2011
Written, performed and recorded by Shane Murphy.

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