Poet Jeffery Beam
Poems
The Goodbye Nest
This day
the orphaned wren's eggs
laid to rest
The rest
nest and rumble
tossed to wind in
the rim of creeping cedar
back of the house
All is not lost
From The Fountain, 1992, North Carolina Wesleyan College Press.
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