Carrier Pigeons

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    When toddlers are unable to speak about urgent matters, they must resort to crying or screaming. This happens even with adults. The voice is the carrier of emotion, and when speech fails us, we need to cry out in whatever form we can to convey our meaning. Often, what passes for negativism is really the toddler’s desperate effort to make herself understood.
    Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)

    On shallow slates the pigeons shift together,
    Backing against a thin rain from the west....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)