To make music from a bone
that’s hollowed out and cut with stops
is a kind of resurrection.
Robert Pittis Scott
Illustrations of various patents printed in "Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion: A Series of Remarks on the Development of Bicycles, Tricycles, and Man-Motor Carriages" by Robert Pittis Scott (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889). From Public Domain Review.
Gallery of Extinct Birds (and other poems)
No one told me I would reach
an age in which I seek out
birds, finding joy in gold dust
finches,….
Some Advice (and other poems)
If a learned man scans
the work of your mind and finds
the meter lacking (unrefined?)
put a wolf in your poem.