Wings Migration 12 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 Two dark birds perch before the dawnmoon. They each flew a long timeto reach these high branches. They knewmany fields, ripe and fallow, and otherlimbs, bare and needled, buddingand in…
Wings In Praise of Swifties 11 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 Old age has not stolen all of my ornithological delights. Although arthritic knees preclude long walks in the woods, And weakening eyes and shaky binoculars hamper my bird-spotting, I can…
Wings Gael’s Path 10 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 Walk on a wintery day, close sighting of a bald eagle taking flight from a tree just over my head, with slow, silent, strokes of its powerful outstretched wings and…
Wings A Great Horned Owl in Daylight 9 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 Stops me down the wooded path behind my house, stilly perched on the inner limb of a magnolia, jolts my muscles, jumps my heartbeat with the plugged gold coins of…
Wings On the painting violette 8 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 on the painting violette berglandschaff - emil nolde 1867-1956 a bird bearing sunrise on its wings . . . the blue night slowly recedes from the mountains as a valley’s…
Wings I Don’t Know the Biochemistry of a Hummingbird 7 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 I can only wonder at this blurred whir of evidence, clouded in the blue fan of a thousand wings. I want to feel their million beats per second on my…
Wings The Kauai Honey Catcher 6 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 In the Alaki rainforest, Hawaii, 1987 His song, from a lonely limb shrouded in mist, Fills the forest and goes unanswered. Reverberant, incessant, desperate Cutting through wind and water. He…
Wings Backyard Drama 5 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 In my small backyard, birds flit swiftly to and fro through the trees and shrubs – noble cardinals, loud, piercing what what what what – brilliant crimson crests cheeky little…
Wings the Tragedy of Chicken-hood 4 Oct 202318 Sep 2023 At a restaurant, it’s not uncommon to be served an entire chicken thigh with the poor little wing still attached. To remind you it was once a bird? I’d rather…
Wings Air Whispers 3 Oct 202318 Sep 2023 Sitting in the shade in my refuge from sun and heat, from human noise, out, away from daily life in the country with no one near I sometimes hear magical…
Wings Wings over Mackinac 2 Oct 202318 Sep 2023 Last rolls of hay sink frost touched in the fields. White birches rehearse the bare clearings for winter, brown fades to gray. Ann spoke of dreams, a pause from the…
Wings On the Wing 1 Oct 202318 Sep 2023 I’ve always envied how they hang there in the sky tugged by the wind as a dog on a leash as a child by the hand set on peering down…
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