Comments on: Blackbirds

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 16 Oct 2024 15:24:19 +0000

I like your writing, Brian. I'm glad to think that in the case of this comment thread you've been inspired a little by my own.

By: Brian Hayes

Brian Hayes — Tue, 16 Oct 2024 14:33:22 +0000

Without a good explanation but condensing my heart, I spent the night searching for the link, a pundit incising that blogs will always stack and stack but our stories will redeem us, the most precious thing, the gift no one can bring but us, that view that afternoon when lifting over the ridge, when curved around that building on that busy sidewalk, when nuzzled along that shoulder that keeps her smile, when all this breath collects what we wish and what we give away. Asking why, it must be for justice and knowing its grip, and it must be for beauty.

By: tamarika

tamarika — Tue, 16 Oct 2024 11:20:02 +0000

Oh – wonderful! I have been thinking about writing about these birds as they come and go outside my window in the Fairmount woods! And here you are … telling the story so beautifully. Hurrah!

By: Brian Hayes

Brian Hayes — Tue, 16 Oct 2024 06:46:35 +0000

That birds condense, I salute. That startling replaces chirps though is still up in the air. As for upright dung?

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Mon, 15 Oct 2024 20:45:03 +0000

itâ€™s a cacophonous high volume treble of twitters

OMG even the blackbirds have been corrupted by twitter – does Scobie know of this – next thing you know we’ll see them on Facerbook