Pileated Poems

Kentucky Woodpeckers

...when out birding, woodpeckers are one of my favorite finds
in Kentucky, where i live there are seven different kinds

the smallest is the Downy and they seem to like my suet feeders best
I always...

Fruit of Lost Winter

...February 27th Lower Peninsula of Michigan
One week of true cold and snow is all
This year
Today is the warmest day ever recorded
For this entire month

An ancient age is passing

Winter short...

The Pile He Ate

...birds fall hunger-wise...
before
cold winters shortages...

today a woodpecker ate...
such an
overfill it had to lay on the...

feeder for ten minutes till...
its throat
cleared so that it ...

Island Touch

...Show me a place where I can be in a little island far above the sea where the skies touch the hills and transmit a message to my window sill. Show me a place where I can be to touch your heart and si...

My Camera Mirror

...on a tripod by the window be my...
camera
with a telescopic lens aimed at bird...
feeders

over the garage door such that the...
chipmunks
can only get bird feed grounded by...
birds

that ...

Outside

... A redheaded pileated woodpecker hopped up a tree
Barn swallows fly around me
Doves were cooing down in the dale
Other birds joined in, I even heard some quail..
    

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Where the Crawdads Sing

...Just past far as you can go,
yonder, where the crawdads sing,
out beyond time’s ebb and flow,
festival is full in swing.

Bullfrog’s on the tympany,
joined by pileated drums.
Katydids join com...

My Dream Vacation

...Tucked high into a saddle in the hills,
Set far above a river vale below,
With wooded glades and waters calm and still,
I cannot think a finer place to go.

A daybreak in the east will steal you...

Pileated Drums

...
rhythmic staccato
interrupts the morning calm
pileated drums

red crest, pointed beak
penetrate the slumbered fog
now the forest hums

crocuses burst forth
joyfully joining the dan...

Brown Trout - Salmo Truta

..."Piscator non solum piscatur"
("There is more to fishing than fish.)"
______________________________

Brown trout anglers catch few fishes
and almost always let them go 
barbless hooks...

Mediation

...Mediation

I wish to capture in some way
With words, the ineffable
Images, and sounds of quiet,
In a time without man sounds.

Early morning awakened by
The first glimmer of orange red
As it...

Early Morning

...Early Morning

I wish to capture in some way,
With words, the ineffable
Images, and sounds of quiet,
In a time without man sounds.

Early morning awakened by
The first glimmer of orange red
...

My Heart Doesnt Know What It Needs

...trees dilly-O sing.
mellow skies surmise —
they’re not quite blue, white nor gray.

knocking in front and back —
pileated woodpeckers, shockers
with crests, crafty
to home owls and bats,
like...

Pileated Woodpecker

...This boy must be in season,

this blaze-headed feather jack 

hammering shack up condos

into swooned oaks, sautéing up fire

ants for a seductive nibble in the pulp.

You can hear him all ...

Hip-Notic

...What movement, what visual rhyme and grace ...

I have watched the old willow on my grand-father's farm
     Sway in a summer breeze, sweeping the grasses with a soft movement
As sublime as t...

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