Writer's Excerpts

mud pigeon

by Amy Dennis

published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto - Book 5

There was a time at Dufferin station when the black
lines that ridged that mud pigeon’s wings reminded me of wound 
stripes on a war uniform, and because I saw it everyday
stippled with flicked cigarette
burns, I started to feel

for the dirt thing, think of it sometimes 
in the dimmed light of long subway rides, its eyes 
red as a fresh bullet’s entrance...

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