Long-Tailed Tit
Notes ring, raindrop song
Through wet boughs ten long-tailed tits
Sing sweet harmonies
Grey Heron
Three grey herons fly
Grey flags over grey rooftop
Fanfare for new life
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The Summer Seagulls
This year, two gull chicks
Speckled pebbles on the ground
By factory door
You sent me photos
Each week, while seagulls watched them
Turn to grey goblins
Shrieking banshee birds
Surviving the heat, the dry
To fully fledge and fly
Summer seagulls swoop
Overhead. Their cold cry cuts
Goodbye, goodbye, Bye!
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