The Canary in the Sky (orkneyman)

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The Canary in the Sky

a dome of cloud
over the city
a  poisoned brown miasma

a rainbowed ribbon slithers
in the river below
bitumal and venomous

a wind
weeps across a treeless slope
cut clear of ancient life

a  rain falls
upon the land
vitriolic toxin

a sparrow knows
the unkind air
of a suffocated sky

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