the first song
of the first blackbird
- the star in the tree
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4 comments:
This is clever: by calling the blackbird a 'star', you reclaim the word from its 'celebrity' associations. But the poem also calls to mind a literal star shining through the branches.
My thanks.
This is lovely. I too have had a similar experience of 'star' shining behind the tree branches!
R K
Thank you, RK!
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