Big Black Bird on the Side of the Road

Jack DeVoss

Big black bird on the side of the road
as the clouds
and the traffic
zoom on past
at seventy-five miles and hour.

With dark,
piercing,
cold eyes
staring forward;

waiting
for me,

to come
and fly away with her.

Published by Jack DeVoss

Inprisoned in Madagascar for a crime he did not commit, Solo learned how to write poems from his cellmate, an old blind man. Paroled, he traveled to a monastery in the mountains of Myanmar where he studied t...  View profile

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