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)