'Black Birds' by Miz Shoes | Miami |Creative Commons

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One of my favorite Florida photographers has this perfect shot of blackbirds in a tree.  As soon as I saw it, I thought of the beautiful poem by Wallace Stevens----one of my favorite poems in life----"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."  Stanza V is my favorite:

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

Then I thought of a favorite song from The White Album:  Paul McCartney's  "Blackbird."

Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise

Both of which are reasons why I find this image---starkly beautiful in and of itself----so moving. 

The photographer herself writes:  "At dusk, when I get off the train, there is a dead tree that is a favorite place for these black birds."

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