Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Archive
Volume 8 Number 1, April 2007
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A Flock in Flight
by
A flock of pigeons like a guided missile
sails through the keyhole of the morning.
The unity of a body derives
from each of its parts having congress
with the same mind.
Where rides the mind of birds
when at the same instant they all turn
sharply downward to Waterloo Park?
Something in us – in fish, in herds, in birds –
keeps a common heartbeat
and laughs at our putative logic.