Some eco-ninny released at least a hundred tame white doves at our creek crossing. What a feast he innocently offered, coyotes in the yard for the first time, a pair of great horned owls, male and then the female ululating, two ferruginous hawks, and then at dawn today all song-birds vamoosed at a startling shadow, a merlin perched in the willow, ur-falcon, bird-god, sweetly vengeful, the white feathers of its meal, a clump, among others, of red-spotted snow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A DEAD MAN by CARL SANDBURG FABLES: 1ST SER. 5. THE WILD BOAR AND THE RAM by JOHN GAY A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN WHAT TOMAS AN BUILE SAID IN A PUB by JAMES STEPHENS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by EDWIN ARNOLD THE HAYMAKER'S SONG by ALFRED AUSTIN TWELVE SONNETS: 12. AFTER BATTLE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |