Audubon Bird Calendar 2023

Audubon Bird Calendar 2023 / Benjamin Rozonoyer

February 8, 2023

Torque of hawk
without his cold will
to lord it
of the lesser auk
razorbill
Alca Torda 

February 9, 2023

Acrocephalus palustris, 
marsh warbler — 
can anything be more illustrious, 
or warn more of warmer? 

March 28, 2023

Sky-colored moth-eater, 
setophaga caerulescens — 
who told her 
that caroling is sweeter than insects? 
Black-throated blue warbler, 
it makes no sense! 

April 3, 2023

Don’t go full throttle, 
ratites; be wary 
of him who among you is hairiest — 
the Southern Cassowary, 
traffic signal for the south Pacific. 

He is double-wattled 
verily, 
although monotypic — 
casuarius casuarius 
where warm waves roll like glass 

June 17, 2023

Traversing glass surface slick, 
I don’t speak, 
being a great crested grebe with chick. 

Whoever has no beak 

is 
out of luck, 
not a podiceps cristatus, 
stuck 
at the edge of an abyss. 

October 11, 2023

Wisdom speaks out 
about the eastern screech-owl: 

Large-eyed, 
Far-minded, 
neath oak-eaves, 
in oak-leaves 
its hideout – 
Megascops asio 

screeching, trill-warbling, 
while this stretch is still starry.

All poetry: Copyright 2024 by Benjamin Rozonoyer. All rights reserved.

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