shouts flinging barking flying all kinds
all kinds of motion for a moment
then my white curls rise so much space
combed by frigid breezes but the view—
all this green I tromped and would have
chewed in a little while all my
sisters and brothers standing close
and those two watching and watching
and I only understood why today
as these little hooves bounded up
but not in play toward the mountain
winged away but there was a pull
a gentle red trickle gave me
some warmth in a blue made of cries
Tag: blue
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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
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immediately you turn around make a correction as the blue of chicory looks nothing like her favorite dress or the coupon you’ve been saving
other animals 