Number 5

I live in the attic where dead pigeons
clapped their grey?blue wings.
They have all perished,
dead pigeons everywhere.
  
Someone fixed the broken window?pane
without setting them free,
made them a tombstone of glass,
tombstone of brain and skin.
  
With the colour of their feathers in my head
they survived at least thirty years,
the colour of no blood.
And their open eyes, eyes of daily life.
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