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How do the small birds
in the street know
how not to die—
that whatever
they gather,
hunger for, is never
enough to keep them
in the road
when our wheels bear down
upon them? They feast on
what I cannot see
then fly away
& sing.
This poem appears in the September 2025 print edition.
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