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...ROCK ME TO SLEEP by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN ADVICE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON RETALIATION by OLIVER GOLDSMITH GOD'S GRANDEUR by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |