Poems in Ryler Dustin's Heavy Lead Birdsong are inspired by science and religion, fatherhood, anatomy, sex and funerals. "Dear reader, we are the same, our eyes sit like heavy windows in black stone like windows sewing by lamplight in houses that are too small to hold their heavy lead birdsongs."―from "Heavy Lead Birdsongs Dustin's collection of love poems―an old man plants orchards in his own chest, angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and a dangerous car ride through the dead of winter takes us to the Ice Age.