AFTER LORCA
            by Tom Gannon
                c. 1986; rev. 1992
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	the red-winged blackbird
sings, but not to call his pied-brown mate
or a cattail congerie--
he sings to be singing: he sings

	the red-winged blackbird
sings, but not for the ever-returning spring,
or other springs, gone by--
he sings to be singing: he sings

	the red-winged blackbird
sings, not to recall in us some preter-
natural nature of things:
he sings


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