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Concerning a Frozen Sparrow

from My Mother's Children by Mary Hampton

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Hunter wrote a poem
concerning a frozen sparrow
and the sound it made
when it hit the ground;
which sounded like...

Hunter's poem fell in the forest
where there's no one around to hear it
and my reading made no sound;
but it sounded like
it sounded like...

Hunter writes no poems.
He's a teacher now,
towering in the playground
where the noise of people growing
bounces high off of the tarmac.

If I wrote a poem, Hunter,
it would be about a man who shoots a stag,
and he would break like a storm
when he came close to its still warm body.

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from My Mother's Children, released September 1, 2008

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