Devil Bird of Dunne County: Narrative Verse

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos I-III

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

I

From an egg Gilbert raised the strange creature,
An egg most odd, of archaic feature,
One laid in a coop by everyday hens,
Yet such was its contour, beyond the ken
Of local farm-boys they brought it toute suite
To Gilbert’s study, and there with …