the dead girl with the head
of a finch in her mouth
a cave for the Karelian
a forest child
with the soul bird
sielulintu
finch chick mouth
rimmed and spotted with light
mother's tongue runway
the dead girl's arrested growth
opens into nothing
unfledged
what voice
heard by a bird
to lose its head
to a dead girl
in a cave
https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-weird-mouths-these-finch-chicks
