by Suzán Jiván
for Lester Mobley
Haunting the outer beaches
as most migrants of the interior
short thick bills in winter
mournful whistle dropping in the middle
long distance skimmer wing tips
Rich whistle golden-plover
snowy piping killdeer
broken wing
flopping
Mostly orange
white collar
field mark
obvious
underparts
mobbed
dark tipped
whistle
clear "wheeep"
wave-
washed rocks
harsh
sharp foreparts
hard "kwip"
stout bill
over winter
Teetering bobbing
uncommonly solitary
barred underparts
muddy pond bush top
Stodgy bulky body
marbled flocks of godwits
fairly common on one spot
whistles of wandering
on and on
whinnying trilling
early in winter
darkening still...
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