Parliament of fowls

Poem by Jonathan Wooding

'Inaudible as force, a blackbird descends' | Photo: by Alfred Kenneally on Unsplash

Inaudible as force, a blackbird descends –
she’s charred sky-chaff, (I want to say) incombustible.
Winter’s bonfire’s out for this blank bird,

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