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Quills

[ASR] Roadkill in rural Oklahoma.

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Quills

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Quills lay silent now
where flit the flies.

No words remain
to speak of nest and warmth,
to draw the lines of needled pines.

They rest
on hot gray highways.

Our roads dismiss their fantasies
of climbing trees,
or eating bugs,
of knowing love's embrace.

No words are left
for quills that silent rest.


Kåre Enga © 2004

Catalogue number: [161.37]
4 april 2004.