PASSAGES;TUNING by Hunter Lewinski

                unfeathering-bird,
riverbed; the fact
of the corpsed stag:

         strange archipelago
as I sit

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so sonority in-
sinuates itself;

              so distance darkens
 

 
in networked burrows
    underground,
by small rodents,

the whole earth
      a piping organ,
      broken stanza—
my life,
 

my slow ear, lowering
to the ground in measures
gelid & patient, but

belated; fumbling
after the decaying reverberations
of a downward-turning
  coda, sotto voce:

   tremor of soil
as the ground adjusts
underneath