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WINTER SPARROW.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	175
Issue	3
Published	2000-01-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

   The first thing I heard early that morning
   was a rapid flapping sound,
   soft but insistent, wings against glass
   as it turned out when I got downstairs
   and saw the small bird
   rioting in the frame of a high window,
   trying to hurl itself through the mystery
   of glass and pass into the spacious light.

   Then the noise in the throat of the cat
   on the rug in a warm slot of sunlight
   told me how the bird had gotten inside,
   carried in the night
   through the flap of a secret basement door,
   and later released from the soft grip of its mouth.

   Up on a...

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