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      April 5, 2026Dave BontaApril Fools

       
       
      the falsetto cry
      of a crow father
       
       
      no elegy
      my hillbilly lungs
      filling with fog
       
       
      time to turn
      the garden over
       
       
      whistling
      wings of a woodcock
      over the graves
       
       
      our pie in the sky
      so full of craters
       
       
      hyacinths
      transplanted from childhood
      that old world
       
       
      forcing our way through
      a forest of privet
       
       
      four choppers
      low over the trees
      the war is here
       
       

      Dave Bonta

      “Oh for a silent spring, and not one filled with explosions and implosions and the unhinged Truths of Mad King Donald! But imperial conquest of one sort or another has been going on for more than 500 years, and spring whether silent or otherwise is mostly a parade of invasive species now.”

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