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Atlantic, Iowa
Bird Syntax
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Dear Thano
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Bird Syntax
published in *82 Review issue 13.3, September 2025
Today man-made matter outweighs all organic matter on Earth.
Today a small Bdelloid rotifer is resurrected after 24,000 years in ice.
Today the "Barn Owl" is split in three: Eastern, Western, American.
Today a muon wobbles, sensitive, maybe, to a force not in our best theory. Someone says there must be something contributing to this white space.
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John James Audubon is thirty-five years old when he starts down the Ohio River in 1820. He carries with him a small portrait of his wife, Lucy, and a piece of paper containing a line the length of her foot, as a reminder of the shoe he promises to buy for her when he returns.
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Outside Peoria a farmer tells me that chickens must “condense” a binocular field of vision by “weaving” and “bobbing” their heads to grant each eye separate access to the world. This, she says, is why so many fear them.
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As I pull a book from the shelf old newspaper-clippings float to the ground.
A SMART BIR
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In my dream a stork walks across the lawn to the door and drops a package on the porch, leaning to whisper in my ear. “I really am surprised at you—,” he begins.