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| In the empty lot - a place |
| not natural, but wild - among |
| the trash of human absence, |
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| the slough and shamble |
| of the city's seasons, a few |
| old locusts bloom. |
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| A few wood birds |
| fly and sing |
| in the new foliage |
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| --warblers and tanagers, birds |
| wild as leaves; in a million |
| each one would be rare, |
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| new to the eyes. A man |
| couldn't make a habit |
| of such color, |
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| such flight and singing. |
| But they're the habit of this |
| wasted place. In them |
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| the ground is wise. They are |
| its remembrance of what is. |