Joyce Schmid
Birdsong
The mockingbird
that used to sing
a medley
of its favorite
blackbirds, finches,
wrens and sparrows
through the night
now sounds
the klaxon of a car alarm
to warn us: Wake up!
thieves are breaking in
and taking
what you never
knew you had.
Poems by Joyce Schmid have appeared in Poetry Daily, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Antioch Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.
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