DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE Poem: Kindred Aves, by Erica Allen McGee

I spotted a Goldfinch, and looked in the book
A bird watcher guide you gave
Landing on the branch it sat
I swear it looked my way
I thought of you and wondered if
Your soul it might possess
Then a blue jay fluttered by
Preening her sapphire dress
And one by one some others joined
A Warbler, a sparrow, a crow
The merry band began to sing
A chorus they all seemed to know
Could it be reunion flock
Amidst this family tree
And you have called them gathering
Past ancestry?
My brooding heart hopes what I see
Is congregation true
To join this roost just one more time
To forage, float with you
Remembering migrations past
Me, fledgling in the nest
A blink and feathers fly away
I am completely blessed

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