POETRY: TOM MONTAG – CLEANERS OF THE WORLD

Cleaners of the World

 

Magpies and crows

and vultures,

 

eaters of the dead,

cleaners of the world,

 

take us across the river;

takes us out of darkness

 

into the sudden light,

you hope-birds, you flyers,

 

you sanctifiers.

 

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