#100people poems part 19: Bird Lady

As it’s April I took a look at the NaPoWriMo website to get me going. The prompt was to write a Lune (or, as in this case, a bunch of lunes) which is a haiku inspired form I hadn’t actually heard of. But the name seemed at least homophonicly appropriate for the bird loving subject of this poem.

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She reels off their names:

“Grackle. Finch.

Junco. Mockingbird. 

Listen! That’s a

Chickadee

Right there, hear it?

I put carcasses out,

For corvids.

They pick the bones clean

I mean, clean! Look here:

My nectar:

For the hummingbirds

You get them back home?

Hummingbirds?”

I shake my head. Her

Eyes widen with shock.

“You never 

Saw one? A damn shame.”