Words for Birds

First person singular prohibited. In order

to be more crow.

War! war! war! war! war! 

Then there's that lowland wetland bird

around the stunted red pines crying

Birdy, birdy, birdy, birdy.

Hear the redwing blackbird chirring

Her, her, her... she

as one might expect, Spring.

Words for birds

since they're inaccessible. Aim

binoculars left, right, up, down, missing every time.

At the piano recital

Aaron made the penguins run, run, run, not waddle, 

from a hungry polar bear! 

Everything passes, even a massacre, 

but birds outlast cars

and words like chemical and holocaust.

Woodpecker climbs oak, 

Connecticut.

Not one neighbor heard the knocking.

The voice of a pewee

whose nest has fallen out of the tree.

Oh my! Oh me! 

What did the wood thrush sing

that summer evening

teaching its young thrush meanings?