swallows

I wish my whole battened
heart were a property
like this, with swallows
in every room – so at ease

they twitter and preen
from the picture frames
like an audience in the gods
before an opera…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Swallows”
published in The Tree House (Picador, 2004)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-tree-house/9781509891825

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Barn swallow taking a break to chatter at me. They are a common sight, swooping and diving around the houses & in the skies of #Catalonia.

#MondaysAreForTheBirds #photography #birds #BirdPhotography #swallows #Spain

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