Barbs on the barbed wire fence
pretend they’re blackbirds
clinging to telephone lines
paralleling the road except
nothing startles barbs into flight;
they remain attached
frozen like dead blackbirds
on museum display.
Barbs on the barbed wire fence
pretend they’re blackbirds
clinging to telephone lines
paralleling the road except
nothing startles barbs into flight;
they remain attached
frozen like dead blackbirds
on museum display.