Don’t you love it when researching something to find or
expand a poem - for example a bird species, the forests in your own region … or
bats because both you and a poet friend have had a visit from a furry winged
creature – and there is one particularly juicy or unexpected detail that makes
you sit up! Or gasp. Or wonder all the more. Or it might come from someone
sharing their passion with you or just repeating a bizarre news item. These details
can be quite spine tingling. Recently I needed to come up with a poem to post
on Project 365 + 1. I’d been thinking about exquisite details and how I’d like
to find so many more – and of course the poems they fit into. So for the sake
of my deadline I collected together a few I already had handy – a couple I’ve
recycled (I confess) and a couple I couldn’t make use of at the time (dammit) –
and came up with this draft to post that day (May 19). I must say thank you
to Susan (bees and honey) and Leanne (python story). Here's the draft poem:
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