June Song

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, and it bore me a message, the one word—love!  – Paul Laurence Dunbar

I heard a dove coo

somewhere high

in the branches

of a rising pine,

a soft good morning

note to begin

dawn’s early chorus,

prompt the robin’s

cheerful whistle,

cue the long

call of the blue jay,

and induce my deep 

and contented sigh.

—C.L. Fisher, June 2022

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