uncommons

Cherokee Street, St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford

There just happens to be the side of a house demolished with a single chandelier exposed to the world on Cherokee street. When I stopped for a photograph, these birds flew the coop (get it?)

It almost feels as if the birds are memories leaving the house that once sheltered the lives of sons, daughters, parents, and grandparents. Now the sad and defaced  room that brought families together at the dining table is but an airy window for all the world to see.