Date: 11/12/25 5:25 pm
From: Fred Bouchard <frederickbouchard...>
Subject: [MASSBIRD] in appreciation of starlings
Murmuration

They take shapes
in air
like a scarf trick.

Look, girls, shape
folds over
and pulls through itself

so that
first becomes last
and an end

becomes a fresh start
in an instant.

Their flock is made
of thousands

as our bodies
are made of cells ----

but a murmuration's more
elastic. It's wide

open to suggestion.

--- Rae Armantrout [New Yorker, 6/16/2025]

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<frederickbouchard...>

 
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