Paolo Javier

Paolo Javier

Moonbird Moonbird

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the end of the world is an island land of fire    “Hey Moonbird, moonbird” at the end of the world What do you ask of me? Soothsaying? 2

sing in veneration of lost city eyes, bleak in the process of knowing tonsils thundering One form of that life a sinister way Beyond your ability to change & to steward Managed retreat you’ll need a moonshot 3

Ever been this far from home? night before sleep in Ushuiaia yanking spat from restinga shelves sustenance for enduring strangle a shrinking migrant 4

A spring tide, rollicking-and-rolling Bronzed & swooning snap into whip formation cleave air Under moon, ripped & gorging aminos do yr best to concentrate on feeding Green eating profiteering, fat birds fly faster than thin

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measurement is what you concocted unable to fathom Enormity catastrophe finality Here is a past lodestar empire Managed retreat will need a               moonshot

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secret knowledge of the sea who deems your inoculation Safe As we become them mass death seeking water Wall of anguish you’ll add to the equator Moonbird feels newly molted No gaps for wind to pass through 7

Will you return to this beach? holdfast

over eons each sea grows bitter with continent song guarding torrents of embankments drowned all sons daughters of

catastrophe