Best Malabar Poems

That car swishes 
along the forest road.
Who cares 
about a poor bird in the age of lynching?
Its beak with berries in it 
freezes. 
Its mate hears 
wing-beats that never near. 

A bird lover’s thoughts grow 
from the carcass.
He climbs up 
the tree trunk
and drops 
figs...

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*Malabar Trogon is listed in Indian Birds-of-Paradise
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Blue eye shadow, blue beak, black innocent eyes - bleak
Chestnut back with designed grey gown and tail ~ misspeaks
He with a white necklace, she a smooth ochred chested
Silent birds still in bare forests at God's behest...

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