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The River Sirens by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

The river sirens
sing of floods
spilling into towns.

They sing of cities
engulfed and
swallowed, of people

turning into fish
and small birds,
flying to safety:

only to be pulled
to the depths
of the river by

their alluring song:
to become
eternal sinking stones.