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to the bird who flew into my screen door and begged me to end its life,<\/strong><\/p>\n by\u00a0Ralph Bousquet<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n my wicked glass<\/p>\n broke your fall &<\/p>\n your welcome,<\/p>\n & you\u2019re welcome, &<\/p>\n your neckbone,<\/p>\n white & wet against your<\/p>\n blue & black feathers, &<\/p>\n i\u2019m sorry, &<\/p>\n your eyes fixed in fury<\/p>\n on me\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0asking<\/p>\n you got what it takes? <\/em>&,<\/p>\n forgive me, but<\/p>\n ### Ralph Bousquet is a poet and musician from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His poems have been published in Ponder Review and The Reader. He attends New York University and lives in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nRalph Bousquet is a poet and musician from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His poems have been published in Ponder Review<\/i> and The Reader<\/i>. He attends New York University and lives in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"