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"Fog-Blooming" by Bernardo Villela

Condensation convolutes my vision

making it hard to see the fog-blooming tree.

The crow flies up it (as the crow flies)

and seeks a perch on its uppermost bough.

The tree barren, surrounded by malignant ultramarine

skies seems to be as isolated, as alone as I am.

The corvid wings aflap rise to it

as if to signal its demise under darkening thunder-dense

skies. But it and I

and I and it

will fight to live

and live to fight

as long as we see fit.


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