Footnotes from the Book of Nature

Try to think

as the lynx

thinks

It's time to care about

the caribou

and

Starfish punc- The sea otter

tuate galaxies none more joyous

of sand and salt on land or water

Quietly

the doe does

as does do

Snowgeese know Loon so loves water

no snowgeese show she almost forgets

in the snow she can fly

No egret regrets

begetting other

egrets

An osprey's nest Optimistic avocets'

inspired long slender beaks

the new science of Chaos curve upward

We chose bald eagle

as our stately

scavenger

Or the turkey buzzard But it takes carrion

our sanitation worker to make the vulture

who flies like an angel plausible

But we like the lark

and owe it

an ode

And the swallow

who flies

like a god