Caren Krutsinger Poet Narrative

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.

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Gershon Wolf September 1, 2022 at 7:26 PM And if not -- if that woodpecker has, indeed, pecked its last peck?! Then what? ~ Woody Caren Krutsinger September 2, 2022 at 2:09 AM It is a gorgeous bird!

L Milton Hankins August 31, 2022 at 8:23 AM I always hate to hear that this or that animal or bird has gone extinct because we did not protect them well enough. Caren Krutsinger September 1, 2022 at 1:01 AM This was an unusual bird; I had never seen it before!