Chase Twichell is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Things as It Is; The Snow Watcher, winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America; and Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. After teaching for many years she founded Ausable Press, a publisher of contemporary poetry. She splits her time between Saratoga Springs, New York, and the Adirondacks.

Birdsong

by Chase Twichell

We strained all the fish from the waters
of the world, both fresh and salt, and ate them.
Pried the last of the secretive pallid squid
from their crevices and ate them,
sucked snails from their shells.

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