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Roosting

By hadley

Mon, 25 Aug 2008
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A form of words,
a shape carved
from discarded silences,
taken from the untidy
piling of thought.

Used to make
these dark formations
taking to the still evening air
flying towards silhouetted trees,
and other brooding
darkly shadowed
undefined roosting places.

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