Dear Stella

by Lauren Chumbley

 

thank you for the pictures of birds
you saw by the lake yesterday
lately I’ve been missing them
not just the wonders you saw
egrets and herons and ibises
but the ones I see every day
passer domesticus most of all
who even in Latin is mundane
passer deliciae meae puellae
why do I miss what I have

 



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