Andrew Brenza
Two Poems


Birds

wind wave wing tern
turn  tin-wave     torn-tin     curve          wave          wind



Birds and Bugs

rare, important thrushes thrust
out the thick cruelties of a thin freedom



                         between them, a bar
                         to keep them exactly as they are

roaches, the humping, crushing hopes of roaches,
persist


                         in fear, in longing, in what losses
                         gloss the spaces of these lines.

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