("The flight of the Kildeer is strong and rapid, and is at times protracted to a great distance. It skims quite low over the ground, or plays at a great height in the air, particularly during the love season, when you may see these birds performing all sorts of evolutions on wing." audobon.org)
Kildeers, about the size of flickers,
screamed across the pasture, summers.
Their shrieks were very fine, accomplished,
their low, straight routes efficient.
Thank God I didn't try to make them
symbolize or teach: what a bore,
a lugubrious Wordsworthian chore.
No. Just the kildeers, fast fliers,
loud criers, going fast from copse
of oaks to stand of pines.
hans ostrom 2017
Kildeers, about the size of flickers,
screamed across the pasture, summers.
Their shrieks were very fine, accomplished,
their low, straight routes efficient.
Thank God I didn't try to make them
symbolize or teach: what a bore,
a lugubrious Wordsworthian chore.
No. Just the kildeers, fast fliers,
loud criers, going fast from copse
of oaks to stand of pines.
hans ostrom 2017
