COAST WEEKEND
READERS’ POETRY
‘Loss of Habitat,’
by Linda Hoard
NORTH COAST
SYMPHONIC BAND
Nesting killdeer weeps its voice across the hillside,
scuffi ng its feigning wings. Red-tailed hawk shadows
young rabbit frozen beneath umbels of lace
From Sea to Shining Sea
Mowers stubble the meadow. For practice, fi refi ghters
blaze the vacant house, blast it with hoses and poles
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Survey crews tape, then excavators scoop
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chunks of habitat into idling dump trucks.
At fi rst a killdeer stammers around the mud, later
fi nds new ground for its scrap of a nest – only
scraped earth, a few speckled pebbles in dry grass
Its precocial young will quickly fl uff about the fi eld
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And we, too, displaced from our own jigsaw tracts, adapt
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People enjoy the sun and views at Ecola State Park.
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