Words Call to You

by Dick Holmes


Original Language English

Like baby birds
in their nests
silently waiting for food,
their mouths wide open,
words call to you,
entreating you
to shape the silence
between them
and turn their sound
into nourishing song.

-- from Recipes for Gratitude, by Dick Holmes

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