L.I. Henley Sometimes Three Hawks Sitting on a Fence Post Means What You Want It to Mean in Victorville, California (from Starshine Road) Sometimes
during the usual months
it is spring in Victorville
But you will not find the ordinary nest with the ordinary eggs all speckled & warm but a half-eaten peach instead As you would not touch a bird’s egg do not touch a bird’s peach *
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Sometimes we need to be chosen even though we are a sideways vine with a backwards bloom My father a cop a white man found his second mother She was the granddaughter of Black Elk worked Citizen’s Patrol in Victorville She called him my son He listened to her the way young boys drink water both hands around the cup gulping 50