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Scheele, Roy
ROY SCHEELE THE SPARROW'S WAY His song makes free with reticence. It says, Let go, let go. Then, as if to show me, he alights from the fence, light edging his wings, and pecks in the...
...His eyes are full of what he knows, and when he flies back up to his perch, breaking the plane of the sun again like a catch in the breath, his shadow skims the cold, cold ground and comes to him...
...Commonweal: 423...
...Then, as if to show me, he alights from the fence, light edging his wings, and pecks in the dirt, puffs out his feathers, hops and gapes...
Vol. 105 • July 1978 • No. 13