The Ensnared Bird

I swear upon
This lexicon
Of Ancient Greek
The truth to seek
& bring to life
However brief
Each silent word
In ink interred

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In your poem
From 1843
I am
The “ragged Jew”
You glimpsed
From your carriage
In cloudy Ukraine
You saw nothing
It’s too late
To rewrite

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So it was true
That fleeting view
Of passing cars
Like shooting stars
Of coming, going
Something blowing
Always more
Lives through the door

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The angel J-Lo
With golden halo
On stage descended
& shook her splendid
Latina booty
Of timeless beauty
An old man leered
She disappeared

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The wolves all day
Pursued my sleigh
My team was fast
But could not last
This beastly night
I died in sight
Of hearth and light

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I drove too fast
For conditions and crashed
These flowers and cross
A mother’s loss
Memorialize
My father cries
And wipes his eyes

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