A bonny bird
All amongst the dross and drear, corruption and dismay
the daily news-round sullying our lives, corroding hope
here’s a bonny bird!
A bar-tailed Godwit, champion and record-breaker,
barely five months fledged
from Alaska flown, the flock unparented
this season’s young
world map within their egg and DNA
and our tracked winner, never touching down
non-stop, eleven days one hour
the length of the Americas, left at Hawaïi
then days above the blue, Pacific,
land and sea, sea and land, frozen north to south
Tasmania! One in a million
bonny bird!
October 29th 2022 Hounoux
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