In the Absence of Sparrows
Rockets concuss. Guns rattle off.
Dogs in a public square
feed on dead horses.
I don’t know, Jim, where you are.
When did you last see
birds? The winter sky in Boston
is gray with flu. Newspapers,
senators, friends, even your mom
on Good Morning America—
no one knows where you are.
It’s night, cold and bruised,
where you are. Plastic twine binds
your hands. You wait and pray, pray
and wait, but this is where the picture goes gray.
We don’t know, Jim, where you are.
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Submitted by acronimous on September 03, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 463 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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