Thursday 24 October 2024

dodo









Dodo  

 

imagine the last dodo   confounded

the whispered croak in its throat

a whimper as it runs for cover

to shelter and shiver

beneath a tambalacoque tree

 

a loneliness only the dying

only the hunted know

 

each one of us

a personal extinction

does the world grieve for this one bird?

did God?

 

to be remembered   to become

a negative overexposed

too much light

too much light

 

an absence felt in someone else’s life 


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