Seven-Star Bird: Poems

As breezes lap the shallow-tugged tide flow

And swallows twitter and skirt the dusk,

We lie within the wreckage of the stars-

The moon spill, our planets' pull-this sad machine.

—from "Seven-Star Bird"

You will not find Friendship, Texas; it now lies at the bottom of a lake of floodwater, forgotten. In Seven-Star Bird, David Daniel rescues the town's-and the poet's own family's-stories and memories, from an ...