other animals

of the genus Zenaida (named 
after the naturalist’s wife) 
macroura (from the Greek for 
large and tailed) a member of the 
dove family, Columbidae, the 

singular member of the order 
Columbiformes, which we can trace to  
before the meteorite. Mourning dove,  
chueybird, turtledove, or rain dove, once

Carolina pigeon slash turtledove.
About a dozen of you little plump 
grey-brown folk squatting in the limbs above 

old snow the light hadn’t started yet to 
dull the little blue that circles your eyes