“Saw-Mill-Song” / Memorable Fancies #3180

[“You thought my body was a tree / in which lived a bird.” – Li-Young Lee]

You wanted me to sing to you, a sweet trill I would replay as often as you liked. But I was not a bird, only a tree’s planed-dead wood, and a wind-up bird with a key in its back,

slow ly

run nin g

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