by Merry Speece
bald sparrow
you could be the national bird
monotonous song!
& with that
one feather falls
& all the time Jesus listening
Merry Speece has published two chapbooks of poetry and been a recipient of a state arts commission fellowship in prose. Her Sisters Grimke Book of Days (Oasis Books, England) is a mixed-genre work of fragmented historical scholarship which one reviewer called a prose poem.
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