Thursday, December 1, 2016

a small casualty in the financial district


A dead meadowlark
lay on the sidewalk
next to the yellow-painted

commercial parking only
curb this cold morning,
a migratory casualty

fooled last night
by big city lights
or the beckoning
reflection

of the bright dusk sky
in the window of the
fifth floor hedge fund.

His yellow-feathered breast
with the black V
like a fifties vintage sweater
unruffled, smooth, and silent.

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