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From Languedoc
like a bird the mind that flitterer moving on
like a line break a
blue tit new to me at my
window mesánge bleue
that’s Middle French from the old
mesenge from Frankish meisinga cognate with Old
High German meisa
and Old English mase this
small bird a message though the dictionary gives
no hint just a tit
tot tad a drib drub drip drop
of chickadee this
one looks much like landing on
his shadow O the difference a “t” makes not
a Meistersinger
now my sudden favorite
in bleue and jaune not jeune should we get into it
Hamilton is the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm, Ossabaw, a volume of poems, The Least Hinge and A Hole in Air, both chapbooks; former editor of The Iowa Review and director of Iowa’s Non ction Writing Program.
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