Row the Wind
You scallywag scavenger,
throaty chatterer,
who rows through the sky
with graceful pride,
your wings black
and white
dipping the wind,
tipping like a canoe
but never capsized—
that is you,
O magnificent
Magpie!
You scallywag scavenger,
throaty chatterer,
who rows through the sky
with graceful pride,
your wings black
and white
dipping the wind,
tipping like a canoe
but never capsized—
that is you,
O magnificent
Magpie!
Johanna (Jody) Byrkett enjoys hiking various types of terrain, foggy mornings and steaming mugs of tea, reading classic literature and theological essays, studying words and their origins, and practising the art of hospitality. (She also has the singularly annoying habit of spelling things 'Britishly'.)