A celebration of the Springs
on the banks of the Suwannee River: the Day.
Lepornis Auritus, of the Breams
and the main course of many Southern fries: the Fish.
Inky black, purple and garnet
with rich plum, red currant, liquorice and oak: the Shiraz.
Indigenous to the Oz bushland
where the Angove family makes their wine: the Snake.
A vegetarian Piranha cousin
colossoma bidens to aquarians in the know: the Pacu.
A ranging fish in a narrow curving band
from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island west: the Dace.
A pet store Melanophryniscian
with fire and crickets in its belly: the Toad.
A hook-billed conure of the house
where men can talk, but hens just squawk: the Parrot.
A turtle with yellow lined head, neck and legs
called Cooter of the Chesapeake Bay: the Terrapin.
A South American quadroped
in a multimale-multifemale social system: the Tamarin.
An arboreal Guinean of Nigeria and Benin,
finding the wet parts of dry tropical forests: the Monkey.
Billardiere's pouched weasel,
a Pademelon to the Aborigines: the Wallaby.
An Amazonian revolving life around Mauritius Palms
with a reedy high-pitched scream: the Macaw.
A North American, pressing its torso to the trees,
showing red better in hand and up close: the Woodpecker.
And all that remains,
the solid biomass incompletely combusted: the Char.
from Thirty Birds
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