o america

[Alan Sondheim]

o america
before we came to you

http://www.asondheim.org/bsdawnflock.mpg

before any of us came
with our machines
necessary to right the wrongs
of our machines

Bolsa Chica 6 in the morning
81 million dollar rehabilitation of the wetlands
they've been destroyed in the LA area
this was an exchange
flocks of caspian, least, other terns

what it was once
filling the blue-grey sky (we heard ibis that made more noise)
with the brilliance of ten thousand wings