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lil · 3520 days ago · link · · parent · post: 6th Bi- or Tri-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker They have a dignity in them
superior to the common woodpecker --
Trees, shrubbery, orchards, rails, fence posts,
and old prostrate logs,
are all alike interesting to those, in their humble search for prey;
Yup. Poetry. but the royal hunter before us,
scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks
the most towering trees of the forest;
those prodigious cypress swamps
whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted
or moss-hung arms
midway to the sky.