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a poem by Olivia Rose

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The Swallow

by Olivia Rose

Flight Your competent wings and hollow bones. Your plum stone chest and walnut skull. You are adrenaline. Flying for no other purpose Than silence and the liquid sky. My e u p h o r i a Laughs in fresh ripe notes from your stockinged throat. Launch each syllable into silky space Hear them glitter Down to Earth. There will be no alighting, not tonight With the moon so clear and stars so bright!

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This is pretty self-explanatory - it brings the phrase \"free as a bird\" into being

Posted: 25th October 2009
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