What Rough Beast |Poem for March 27, 2018

David Dixon
Make No Peace With Oppression

Songbird by the door
should soon be disposed

before there is attraction
to the animal undesired.

I find it rare
to survive such flight,

devoted and dead ahead,
full to our own reflection.

David Dixon is a physician, poet, and musician who lives and practices in the foothills of North Carolina. His poetry has appeared in LIGHT JournalThe Examined Life, Rock & Sling, The Northern Virginia Review, and elsewhere.

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