HERRING GULL

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On the beach before dark
the herring gulls,
old men in white with long shadows,
strut and chat with each other.

We don't know their language.
But we listen.

The sea comes as in a dream,
delivering a dramatic report.

We don't know the languages
of the wind, the sunset, the stars.
Still we listen.

As children
we played a game called "broken telephone."
Someone whispers words to you.
You guess what they are
and whisper them to someone else.

We don't know the first word.
But we listen.

And so we make
our parallel worlds.

© Vladimir Levchev
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© Електронно издателство LiterNet, 12.10.2004
Владимир Левчев. Черна книга на застрашените видове. / Black Book of the Endangered Species. Варна: LiterNet, 2004

Други публикации:
Владимир Левчев. Черна книга на застрашените видове. / Black Book of the Endangered Species. USA by Word Works <http://wordworksdc.com>, Washington, 1999.