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.
Categories:
ivory billed woodpecker, bird,
Form: Narrative