[分享] Amy Miller, The Last Passenger Pigeon
The Last Passenger Pigeon (d. September 1, 1914, Cincinnati Zoo) (2024)
Amy Miller
Eyewitnesses reported that skies darkened when flocks flew overhead on sunny
days.
Martha, once a speck
in the abundance of her kind
became just one, last
in the alone
of her cage, dead
on a late-summer afternoon.
We loved a long while in a gentle
deep, our silence
kindling comfort. Your pulse
trembled my heart, my cheek
soaked up your sun
until
you receded into ashen sleep.
When I die, our final fastening
dispersed,
perhaps the skies
will lighten then.
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