DPF / Carlile

For birds and snow, from Bright Wings, An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, edited by Billy Collins, with paintings by David Allen Sibley. More about the author here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/henry-carlile#poet

from The Cardinal / by Henry Carlile b. 1934

He shocks us when he flies
like a red verb over the snow.

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