Sunset, Wings

A poem

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A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings is a poet, critic, and translator living in Athens, Greece.

Crows descry the sky,
desecrate the cyanic,
scrying and crying.

Swallows, I swear, not
Swifts; but swift—swoop, swivel—whose
scissored silhouettes,

belated, become
a quibble of pipistrelles,
tippling acrobats.

Who haunts the hill? Lo,
one-note woe: Oh well, twilight
throws in the towel.