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  Caged Bird

  by Matthew J. Spireng

  Some believe there's somewhere in the brain

  that senses minor fluctuations in the Earth's

  magnetic field and uses a sort of memory

  of that to travel the same route year after year

  over thousands of miles, over open ocean

  on moonless, clouded nights, and a built-in clock

  that, save for weather's influence, tells

  when it's time to go. But they utter nothing

  of thwarted dreams in birds' brains, how

  a few cubic feet near the ground, however

  well-kept and lighted, however large it seems

  around a small bright bird, is like a fist

  closed tight on feather and bone, how, certain times

  of year, the bird's heart races as if to power flight.

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