This is Bird Note.

Poet Adelamon often writes about birds,

and her new book, The Herding Kind, is No Exception.

Birds are a through line in the book,

between the seasons from childhood to present,

from a knowing to unknowing.

That last part, knowing and unknowing,

is what we're going to look at in today's episode,

with two poems that examine opposite sides of that coin.

Calling things what they are.

I pass the feeder and yell,

Grakow Party,

and then an hour later I yell,

Morning Dove After Party.

I call the feeder the party,

and the seed on the ground,

the after party.

I'm getting so good at watching,

that I've even dug out the binoculars,

an old poet gave me back when I was young,

and heading to the cape,

with so much future ahead of me,

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