Sunday, July 24, 2011

A RETURN

[Matthew Zupruder]

My hair is white.
So the journey was long.

I must have visited many ports.

Or just one,
where I stayed a long time
forgetting my language.

I bring you no fine scraps of cloth
in my empty hands.

And this bird on my shoulder
who remembers your name.

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