Declaration | Sojourners

Declaration

A poem.
Illustration of the silhouette of a bird in the night sky with its wing surrounding the moon
Illustration by Colleen Tighe

Each word I choose
carries a different rucksack load        for each of you
like I’m the fox        slinking along rail lines
        thinking by instinct & appetite        & you’re
        the commuter passing through
like I’m the moon whose same beams call
        to a weeping child        to a prowling owl
        to shivering rodents in the grass

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