Yellow canary
carries solemn warnings true
leave now for safe lives,
personal mortality
placed on mind's forefront again.

Earth's bowels shaking;
eagles with olive branches
soar over hot steel,
hushing the river Hudson
when crickets cease their sole plight.

©2001, Wynne Mercado

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