On our second Shortlist Saturday, here's some beautiful poetry from Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi, who received third place for the poem The Music of Birds in Exile, now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/the-mus...
mama is not dead.
she sits under the plum tree beside my window.
she’s a bird with prominent feathers; she’s a girl of fifteen [...]
