A silver foil bird with angular wings hangs beside a curling pale-blue ribbon against indigo.

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Cosmo Castorini

Birds fly to the stars – I guess.

— Moonstruck ‧ 1987

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker offers a dreamy claim, that birds head for the stars, then softens it with a shrug. The words have a wistful, offhand quality: a poetic image of flight reaching upward, held loosely by someone unwilling or unable to be sure it's true.

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