My memaw was born in a community named Letterbox,because, for a time, the residents took their mailfrom wood or tin letterboxes they’d nailed to the trees.There was a Letterbox School.My memaw, for a time, learned her letters there.Now, they call the community Parrot, like the bird.In our neck of the Rockcastle, community names morph. Eventually,Continue reading “Taxonomy, Shaun Turner”
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Birds are Vanishing from North America, Shaun Turner
headline from the New York Times, 9/19/19 Have you noticed their absence, too? The blurof beak and wing no longerrising en masse from a field of sweettimothy? It’s so easy to get usedto change and live along with itsvibrations. The mockingbird at my grandma’s old house,he doesn’t sing. Instead, he rumbleslike an escavator. * ShaunContinue reading “Birds are Vanishing from North America, Shaun Turner”
