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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. |