This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-10-28 16:44:31 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Singing With Wolves

At first a single drawn out vowel from the dark silent frost then another they blend into a wavering yodel I find a loneliness I never knew was there I reply-- howling into their night . . . . silence and at last they echo my call joined by still others our chorus floats upward into a glissando a pandaemonium of ululations breaks into a higher octave then glides back to the original pitch we celebrate our newfound melody below the white moon.

Copyright © October 2001 John R. Birkbeck

Additional Notes:
I hope the lack of punctuation is not too disconcerting. I have written this poem both ways, with and without the proper punctuation. The way I've presented it here, seems to me, in keeping with a pristine northern night of wolfsongs. This poem has been published in Lyrical Iowa, Contemporary review, Sabine, and in a book of my poems titled "Longitudes."


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