Gift of Tongues
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Great Kiskadee—A large flycatcher; casual vagrantin southeastern Arizona and onGulf coast to Louisiana.
—National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Past the backward lyreof the tongue, not one of its five articulate bonestrained to sing, song rises.Curse or praise, he sends the only truth he knows whollyrolling up and downthe wooded watercourse.There, smolts' quick darning needles riseto snag at gnats. He snatchesfish and fly with equal gratitude.I call him blessed,ignorant of distinctions.Seeming just as pleased to troll this world shoutinghis great wanting asto take what he desires. [End Page 197]
Pamela Gross
Pamela Gross's first poetry collection, Birds of the Night Sky / Stars of the Field, was published by the University of Georgia Press.
