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Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
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Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

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December 28, 2022
Illustration of two swallows
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, 1894

John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at…

Moist manna falls gently on crops bled by cold winds. Spread them out or share them with visiting gulls. #7 on the list: Priapus. He ran to She slept on the rock the fat of upon me. the beast. Go, sons, go carve the shore. The character of the swallow is known more from his shadow than from his shape. I decided to follow the gulls back to the sea.
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John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, gorse, DecomP, Verbatim and Bad Robot Poetry.

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