Loquaciousness in Louisiana

      Picaresque birds cry hi-yi-hi 
      From the lustered branch 
      Festooned with ants. 
       
5     Crocodiles mustered in the bayou 
      Flutter melodious tails 
      Under oaks. 
       
      Captains of the stratosphere march high, march high 
10    Stepping the squalid dews 
      Of gaudiest clouds. 
       
      When the marshal of the swamp cries hi-yi-hi 
      It is his essences' valence 
15    Neatly strummed.

 

From the collection "Constellations in December"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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