irruptive unpredictable
confiding & gregarious
the wandering bohemian waxwing
words of ornithology
only begin to describe
the illusive bomycilla garrulus
yesterday
75 or perhaps a hundred or more
among the persistent tiny crab apples
along a winter street in the Soo
nomadic & unconventional
they speak and move as one
and as many
their voices and wings
weave
a rhapsody--
enthusiastic improvisational
uninterrupted & ecstatic
by Jeffrey Riordan Hinich
I had heard of the cedar waxwing, but not the bohemian - beautiful markings, and just read about the 'red sealing wax' feather tips of the 'waxwings', named in a past time when sending and sealing a message was more tangible and uniquely hand crafted.
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