We’re all saying the same thing now,
scolding the same shadow,
not in harmony,
but in sync
or by turns.
Singing that bar
about the flock
taking off
"as if" it were one body—
as if this was one body—
and who could be listening?
Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several books of poetry, most recently Money Shot (2011) and Versed (2009), winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Denis Poroy
Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several books of poetry, most recently Money Shot (2011) and Versed (2009), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Photo credit: AP Photo/Denis Poroy