![]() ![]() ![]() The girl bumped her lips and blew out breath in the form of a B as in bird, as if to say bird, but no word, no bird, flew up out of the puff of wind made by her girl mouth. It, this bird, it looked up at the girl with no tongue in her mouth with its one wing stuck out to hide its face. Now, with her eyes closed no more, she looked down and not up and saw, not in the sky but on the dirt of the ground, a bird with just one wing. The stars, when her eyes were closed, moved in ways that they did not move when she did not close her eyes to look up at the night’s sky. ![]() She looked up at the sky filled with stars, and then closed her eyes and saw them in a new way with her eyes closed in this way. It was night, and the girl with no tongue walked out in the night to spend some time in the dark. It was the girl with no tongue in her mouth who saw the bird with just one wing turn in to be the witch. No, it was not an eye that grew in in the place where the wing should have been, it was a mouth, a mouth with a tongue down in it, and teeth, a beaked mouth, and this bird, it sang-yes, sounds flew out of it-like a bird with two mouths. This was the bird’s third eye, and it was through this eye that the bird watched the boys in the woods as they walked through the woods in search of the bird whose wing they found in the place in the woods where the witch had dropped when they took a rock to the side of her head. Or in a twist on this tale of the bird with just one wing, when it died, where its one wing should have been, there was an eye that had grown in where a wing should have been. When it died, where its one wing should have been, a new wing had grown back. ![]() But the bird knew that what a bird did best was fly. Sing when the sun comes up with the light of day. This bird with its beak, it sang to the clouds and the stars as if to say what else is a bird like me to do. It flew in a loop till the clouds and the stars in the sky told it to take a break. The truth is, this bird with just one wing, it flew. You might think that a bird with just one wing would be a bird that could not fly, but this is not the truth. ![]()
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