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Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone

By Tarik Dobbs
"Poem Where Every Bird Is A Drone": Concrete poem shaped like a tree, using repetition of the word "bird." It is positioned above a 9-line prose poem.
Source: Poetry (May 2021)
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