POETRY Reading: WINGS, by Angie Kinman
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Performed by Val Cole
Wings, by Angie Kinman
Give sorrow words,
Shakespeare wrote.
Lest my heart
should break.
So I tell her story to the Indigo Buntings
as they craft nests of
beautyberry and Indian blanket
in a field abloom with life.
They listen.
I think they know
my little girl who was Light
though her voice was silent.
She is in the green glades
they tell me, where swallowtails
flit between bee balm
and trumpetweed.
She sings
a sweet melody
with the wood thrush
and the nightingales.
Give sorrow wings,
I write.
Lest my heart
should break.
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