Letter to America by Catherine Staples
Swallows: Common yet Declining And yet you’ll see them everywhere— on telephone wire or fence rail, diving the swale between dunes riding the sun-baked meadows uphill through aerials drifting on wind. Swealwe, suala, swalue, swallow— they swoop loose of syllables, the ancient names that called them down. Iridescent blue and black, masters of the long glide and liquid reverse. How slowly they go from hayfield and sea-cliff, so slightly diminished we … Continue reading Letter to America by Catherine Staples
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