'The last bird sang...' Photo: Patrick Hendry / Unsplash.
The Sybils Speak in Quaker Meeting
'The Sybils Speak in Quaker Meeting' by Dana Littlepage
The last bird sang
its black remembrance
of earth at the bottom
of our garden. One black bird
perched on the edge of time
a spindle twig quickened
by May, its golden beak