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Archive for 25 April 2007

Fiesta Poem

Ovenbird

Fiesta
by Maxwell Croyden Wheat, Jr.
Comes with warblers,
waves of warblers
moving up the continents:
Yellows, Bay-breasteds

Black-throated Blues, Greens.
Myrtles, Magnolias
flourishing wing-tail skirts of white and yellow, Redstarts flashing flamenco fans of orange and red, Chestnut-sideds displaying headdresses of sun

Then, Blackburnians
flown from flames of Aztec fires,
Prothonotary emblazoned with Inca gold

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