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the birds are louder now
we say
but no
(that’s so obverse of us)
it’s our ears
are waking up
are stretching tiny bones are pecking
stretching downy wet
are stretching wings and pecking through
the eggshells of before
to lift themselves
thank god
as naked
dizzy stunned
and blinking yeses
fully nested here and fully
now’d
Claire Miller Colombo is Assistant Professor of Writing, Theology, and the Arts and Director of the Center for Writing and Creative Expression at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. She is editor of the seminary's literary and arts journal, Soul by Southwest, and co-author of the commentary on Colossians in the Wisdom Commentary series (Liturgical Press, 2017).
