If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord …

Sylvia Plath
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If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, p.285, Faber & Faber
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