Slowed-Down Blackbird
Three people in the snow
getting rid of themselves
breath by breath
and every six seconds a blackbird
three people in raincoats losing their tracks in the snow
walking as far as the edge and back again
with the trees exhausted
tapping at the sky
and every six seconds a blackbird
rst three then two
passing one eye between them
and the eye is a white eraser rubbing them away
and on the edge a blackbird
trying over and over its broken line
trying over and over its broken line
