The Marbled Sigh: “No Birds” | “November 9, 2016/November 6, 2024”

Updated: Jun 22

“November 9, 2016/November 6, 2024” | "No Birds," published in The Marbled Sigh: https://themarbledsigh.com/2025/03/03/no-birds/ Yesterday a searing dusk

watered the sky. What if Earth,

a capsule, contains only

the past, puzzling as prehistory,

colorless as old photographs,

silent, as in an empty church,

as in abandoned towns,

as in birds before dawn,

or if there were no birds

to announce their wonder

at having lasted the night.

Published in The Marbled Sigh

We woke stiff as chairs

in a funeral home from childhood––

the corpse looking back at us,

belligerent.

Paula Colangelo