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OPEN YOUR EYES AND GIVE ME YOUR BIRDS

don't tell me please that i have
strangled those pretty
old birds that were free in
your eyes

those flirty birds
you were fixing for
christmas..

excuse me
they weren't so quiet
and terrific
or so free for your
rapid taking, i said

it's a free world
of birds for
all of us
now

step back in line
and get some
new birds
please

surprise your eyes
with new kinds
and besides
it's a dirty long road to
christmas from
here

now if you would
open those flirty purple
eyes and allow me
the birds i wish
to kill

Andrew Boerum

EYES

blue windmills turning sunlight into bread
the murmuring turbines of you

the gills of the goldfish
in a porcelain tub

languid petals of unplugged fan
spiraling in the breeze

quick wink of the guillotine
flared skirt of mushroom

lightswitch squirting darkness
through the room

venus flytrap closing on
some hungry living thing

Mike Finley

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