And if you steal leafed wings
off nearby trees
and turn away from concrete and glass,
what will they do?
They could lift their sun-burnt bodies
out of starving dirt
and crawl after you,
They might sever limbs
and slice off pigeon-whitened flakes of skin.
They could bow away from the sun
and droop down in false prayer.
And what, of all these,
do you expect from me?
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