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Saturday Poem: Snowbirds

Saturday Poem: Snowbirds

Early November

just after the first frost

 

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Driving South 79 to 19

to 77 and beyond

 

A procession of motor homes

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shiny and bright as just unwrapped Popsicles

 

Does not matter if we believe

in the Garden before the first Sin

 

Or if we evolved

upon our own two feet

 

We are compelled by instinct

to leave our nests of furnace and snow

 

And follow the honking birds to the warm, salty air

a little down the road from retirement.

 

Francesco Pasqualino

Francesco Pasqualino is a full-time restaurateur and part-time writer who lives in Fox Chapel.

First Published: November 14, 2015, 5:00 a.m.

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