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Homing

We don’t, yet, have the new addresses
(The Hawthorns, say; The Yews, perhaps)
but there are signs: the orchard’s scurf of moss,
this scatter of dropped twigs, a general air
of to and fro and busy-ness, the test
of territorial singing. Then, the nest.

D. A. Prince


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