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hanging out after school

birds fly south in the winter
a kindergarten myth
once told

often sold
to unsuspecting souls
looking for a place to sleep

in the dead of winter
robins navigate
the snow & the salt

children empty buses
marching single file
watching mushroom movies

glazed eyes on the outside
looking in
even when there’s nothing to see

their wings tucked away
and unnoticed
to the untrained eye

angels sing in the choir
on a school night
auditorium standing room only

outside in the cold
wanderers with wings or not
listening in


november two thousand twenty-four
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