Murmuration of Mind and Tongue

how can it be     

            as the mind moves the tongue 

    moves      

somewhere near the flock a falcon

     is   (the flock

loses no information)  

How can it be

thousands of birds      

how can it be     at a time

                    turning

wing and wing   (the mind

of a country) at one time

thinking.

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Laurie Lamon’s poems have appeared in journals and magazines including The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. She has two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger and Without Wings. Her poems have appeared several times in J Journal. She is professor emeritus at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.