This poem is taken from PN Review 271, Volume 49 Number 5, May - June 2023.
Der Kleiber: Eurasian Nuthatch
(Sitta europaea)
…What’s the littlest thing
You can spin a poem out of…?
– Michael Schmidt
Over here there are enough trees
to make us feel sheltered.
We hear it first, a loud song:
the clear notes so sharp, it makes us stop.
But there is no fear we think, no pain.
When we look up, we see the bird:
tiny, unlikely.
...
You can spin a poem out of…?
– Michael Schmidt
Over here there are enough trees
to make us feel sheltered.
We hear it first, a loud song:
the clear notes so sharp, it makes us stop.
But there is no fear we think, no pain.
When we look up, we see the bird:
tiny, unlikely.
...
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