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Cardinal Song

They are so far away
but I can hear their voices
rising up from the ashes
rising up in a song

over the black water
a cardinal opens its mouth
to sing
then the light comes to
shine through the dark.

The black water sings
the cardinal sings to
the black water.


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Cardinal Song

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