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Omen
Bruce McRae
A bird in the house
means a loved one is about to die.
Riches are coming your way.
The lost will return to you
after an impossible journey.
Unlike a bat or bug,
a bird in the house
presages madness.
It means love is broken.
Calamity is imminent.
A bird in the house
warns of a secret spent.
It forecasts a hard winter.
That however much you prepare
you’re never ready.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been broadcast and performed globally.
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