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BIRDS ARE NOT THE ONLY MUSIC

BIRDS ARE NOT THE ONLY MUSIC 

A name, if not heavy, still of a certain heft,

but less jagged than affection: a suitable anchor for this good earth. Its freight & pestilence 

(with promise’s promises intermixed):

Josephine, Blondena, Ola-Bell, Herbert, Rufus. Borne in indefinite directions, all.

Rangi McNeil is a native of Laurinburg, North Carolina. He earned a BA in history from Rice University and his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. He is the author of Occasional Poems and The Missing.

Illustration: Zahid Mayo

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