'Net' a new poem by Alice Allan

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sparrow strung up
one foot knotted
in an accidental
backyard trap

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sparrow strung up
one foot knotted
in an accidental
backyard trap

I bury her
neck soft as ribbon

all year
she crouches at my
kitchen table
asking