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Jackdaws

The blackbird takes off from his perch on this lone pine in the dairy pasture, winging towards the sky with all his might but the pine is pugnacious and bitter, sweltering in winter. Before he travels a league from her she drops him dead from the sky, victim of some coniferous voodoo, some hex or lymphoma ending him like a matchstick.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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