Monday, January 21, 2013

A very huge and flightless bird


A very huge and flightless bird
Scavenged here not long ago
Compared with larks of pioneers
It fled with just vestigial wings

And when a starling interval
Replaced the larks of pioneers
The prairie called for scavengers
To find the huge and flightless thing.


Tom McGlynn
copyright 2013

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