Friday, April 4, 2025

Phainopepla

 


You might have red eyes, too,

if you’d been up all night

consuming mistletoe

 

by the bunches.

 

But maybe you know what

I mean.

What a mess—

 

why did I treat that party

like

it was 1999?

 

Phaino-pass-the pepto, please.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

Phainopeplas have red eyes and consume an abundance of desert mistletoe.  Also, Day 4 and I’m already feeling it—pass the poetry Pepto ;-)

 

PAD Day 4:  write a mess poem

NaPoWriMo Day 4


(image above found in the public domain)


3 comments:

  1. Delightful! Smiles all around and what a cool bird. I'm really enjoying bird month but it makes me wonder. What kind of bird are you? I imagine something bright and colorful that strikes those who gaze upon it with a sense of amazement...

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  2. all nighters have so much less appeal anymore , except for the mistletoe inspired kinds, I suppose~

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  3. Hands you the big economy size bottle. Down the hatch, woman, you have miles to go before your keyboard sleeps. (You can do it.)

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