If you were a bird, what would you like to
be? A canary thrilling throngs with song?
A mountain eagle soaring through the blue
above snow top, or craggy rock? How long
would you glide as a seagull? The entire
day off Malibu’s beach? Would you pamper
the fuchsia as a hummingbird? Retire
at dawn from your night-owl prowl of campers’
sites? Aztecs held sacred the emerald-
tailed resplendent quetzal. Would you welcome
such adoration? Bless Egypt’s heralds
announcing your phoenix rising like some
great sail from a black sea? Is it absurd
to vary voices as a mockingbird?
Roger Armbrust
April 26, 2007
