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" Pain is a carrier pigeon.  Read the message it brings you,
then set it free. Don't make a pet out of the bird "

                            Kathleen Chesto

 I've freed
that grey bird
from its marrowed
cage but kept
a plucked feather
for a quill:
to write these poems,
these words that
seed the furrows
of this page,
(as I listen to
that place between
the muffled rumors
of the heart and
yr. still, small voice.)
This is how I find my way:
all the way to You
my lonely, distant God.