What the Birds Will Do

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Esther Windt Student Contributor, St. Ambrose University

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SAU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

The birds will fly still.

Turn up stones, sticks,

they’ll gather our

leftover bones

to build their nests.

They’ll tweet through the forest,

lush and green,

rebuilt

remade

from the remains

of the humans unseen.

The birds will repopulate,

They will live prosperous and happy lives.

The humans were mean and irate

and could not survive.

The birds will exist

long beyond us,

they will

nap

flap

and crap

all over

our mangled bones

buried, wantless

and dismissed.

Esther Windt

SAU '22

Esther Windt is an editor for HC @SAU.

Beyond HC, Esther is involved in campus. She is a part of the board for Theatre Appreciation Club as well as the editorial team for the Quercus literary magazine. She is also involved in theatre productions put on by SAU theatre. She also works as a writing tutor with the Student Success Center on campus. She is majoring (Creative Writing Concentration) and Theology.

In her free time, she likes to go on runs, writes frequently, as well as watch TV and drinks lots of coffee. A fun fact about Esther is she's never broken a bone

What the Birds Will Do

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