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Sport 12: Autumn 1994
Waking the birds
Waking the birds
Wake birds,
the sky loses its dark
because of you, light
slowly coming around
the corner to surprise
you.
A lion worries a bone
into morning
and berries come out
from behind their green
shields.
Boats in the harbour
planes in the sky
the wings and wheels of the
modern world are
moving.
The titles for these poems are taken from Veljo Tormis’s song titles on
his recording Forgotten Peoples, which is a set of six song cycles from the
region of Estonia through Karelia and towards Finland.