Scissor-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) perched along a Galveston West End bayou While herons and robins, egrets and larks receive multitudes of mentions in poetry — if not complete poems written in their honor — other birds seem to be ignored. Walter de la Mare wrote about the spotted flycatcher, and Nissim Ezekiel memorialized an unfortunate … Continue reading The Poet’s Birds: The Perchers
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