Give Me My Illusions

It gives me comfort to believe the ivory billed woodpecker exists Somewhere in dense swampland in the bowels of Louisiana Where people do not often go, for it is a beauty. Largest woodpecker in the world with a wing span of thirty inches. It makes me sad to think that we have eliminated this gorgeous bird. I like to think of them peeling dead bark off hardwood trees. Deep in the forest, eating beetle larvae and persimmons. I hope they exist, I hope they are not extinct. Sadly, the last accepted sighting in Cuba was in 1987, And the last verified sighting in the USA was in 1944. I plan to keep my imagination traveling in a world of hope. That the Ivory billed woodpecker exists somewhere.