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The Name of the Virus

by Paula Jennings

I think of corvids,
the green-black of crows, the blue-black of rooks,
and the chough near Lochinver
flying upside down for the hell of it.

And the blackbird (not a corvid),                
that stays close by me as I weed,
lining up worms in his golden beak.


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