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Brent Michael Canle
We Want to Be Birds

He said we are trees but we want to be birds. I asked him if I could be a bell because I love the way the bell swings. Some friar pulling his weight against mine on twisted rope, and the cadent moments until the clapper gains momentum and sounds.

Brent Michael Canle is a poet/writer from Long Island, N.Y. After a brief stint in the MFA program at The New School, he has since left to make careless mistakes all over the world. When home, you can find him bouncing around Philadelphia where he works for The Toothless Cat art gallery. He is also employed by the literary magazine Drunken Boat. His poetry has appeared in The Canary, Best Poem, The Blue Fog Journal, and many many Inboxes. He also maintains and rambles in a blog at reallysmallprint.blogspot.com.