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by Jack
Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #1370476
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The witless bird
Comes to collect
Small fish, he turns
And bends his neck.

I sit and watch
This painful sight.
I tried to save
These fish last night.

I picked them up
Each one by one
And threw them back
Until the sun

Called back the birds,
Tide’s mordant slaves.
They killed the fish
I couldn’t save.
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