the task at hand
listen carefully
the birds in the air are many
and you’re missing so many of them
in another life you were
a cardinal or a crow or a sparrow
going about your fabulous business
as if there’s no tomorrow
but of course you don’t
remember those days other
than a song or two or three
that for some reason keep
challenging your long term memory
tomorrow it will be monday
which means you’ll be fishing again
casting your line at lock & dam thirteen
and forgetting about the past
only focused on the task at hand
july two thousand twenty
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