{"title":"The Mockingbird","authors":"Michael Autrey","doi":"10.1093/litimag/imac055","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Place is new to us, A foreclosure. The mocker puts Our house in order. * Home’s a trailer, Car’s on blocks. The mockingbird Never mocks. * Our house a shotgun shack Yet the mockingbird sneaks back To sing, among The bric-a-brac, His quilted song. * The chimney smokes until We’ve burnt every stick. On the soot-blackened lip The mockingbird Rehearses, sotto voce. * Our cabin skeletal; joists, shakes Sweating from the saw. Yet To this stumped lot a Mockingbird, Confederate Gray, comes bearing Flags of truce—or surrender.","PeriodicalId":41063,"journal":{"name":"Literary Imagination","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Literary Imagination","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imac055","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY REVIEWS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Place is new to us, A foreclosure. The mocker puts Our house in order. * Home’s a trailer, Car’s on blocks. The mockingbird Never mocks. * Our house a shotgun shack Yet the mockingbird sneaks back To sing, among The bric-a-brac, His quilted song. * The chimney smokes until We’ve burnt every stick. On the soot-blackened lip The mockingbird Rehearses, sotto voce. * Our cabin skeletal; joists, shakes Sweating from the saw. Yet To this stumped lot a Mockingbird, Confederate Gray, comes bearing Flags of truce—or surrender.