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Of many reasons I love you here is one
 
the way you write me from the gate at the airport
so I can tell you everything will be alright
 
so you can tell me there is a bird
trapped in the terminal      all the people
ignoring it       because they do not know
what to do with it       except to leave it alone
until it scares itself to death
 
it makes you terribly terribly sad
 
You wish you could take the bird outside
and set it free or       (failing that)
call a bird-understander
to come help the bird
 
All you can do is notice the bird
and feel for the bird       and write
to tell me how language feels
impossibly useless
 
but you are wrong
 
You are a bird-understander
better than I could ever be
who make so many noises
and call them song
 
These are your own words
your way of noticing
and saying plainly
of not turning away
from hurt
 
you have offered them
to me       I am only
giving them back
 
if only I could show you
how very useless
they are not
 

 

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