In the sound of the prairie marbled Godwit

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  1. Alan Summers Says:

    Love when the bird is named!

    In the sound of the prairie marbled Godwit

    —martin gottlieb cohen

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    Wonderful!

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    I loved doing this for a haibun:

    Lesser Redpoll the paper cuts in semi-skimmed milk

    barely drifting snow the Black-tailed Godwit

    Brambling bright with snow the boy’s room blinks back stars

    Barnacle goose your Old Norse unfurls free

    Fieldfares at sundown the kettle losing its whistle

    Phoenix fowl the use of fingers and silk bookmarks

    Meadow Pipit how they hold our muscle memory

    Alan Summers
    HAIBUN: Pulpit to Pipit
    Contemporary Haibun Online issue 20.2
    ed. Lorraine Padden (August 2024)

  2. martin gottlieb cohen Says:

    garbage scow
    plunging into its sound
    laughing gull

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