{"id":1698,"date":"2021-07-17T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=1698"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:13:03","slug":"the-absence-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/the-absence-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"the absence of birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\r\n\r\nthe absence of birds\r\n<\/strong>Lawdenmarc Decamora\r\n\r\nwords are birds\r\n\r\nwords in transit\r\n\r\nspace\r\n\r\nbe birds\r\n\r\nthe shapes\r\n\r\nof permutations\r\n\r\ncongratulations!\r\n\r\nfrom Manila Bay to our bones: we have no idea\r\n\r\nhow beautiful that sky lantern\r\n\r\nis to six acacias<\/em>\r\n\r\nwhen it falls to the ground\r\n\r\nwhen it swims in the chaos of colors\r\n\r\nwhen we take out the words\r\n\r\nwhen we see people manage their hours\r\n\r\nbetween cityscapes & a birdless sky\r\n\r\nmemory foams\r\n\r\n& you realize\r\n\r\ntemporal: i\r\n\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLawdenmarc Decamor<\/strong>a is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated Filipino writer. He is the author of two book-length poetry collections, \u201cTUNNELS\u201d (Ukiyoto Publishing) and \u201cLove, Air\u201d (Atmosphere Press – forthcoming). His work has appeared in The Seattle Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Common, Comstock Review, and elsewhere.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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