A Spy A Crook

“With used furniture he makes a tree.”
—Anne Sexton (from “The Black Art”)

She wants to carry a bundle
of twigs into the wood
where she will do her best
to get lost.

Where she will turn
benches into trees,
trees into musical chairs
below the thrush’s found song.

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