Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos XXXIV-XXXVI

Narrative Verse

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos XXXIV-XXXVI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XXXIV

At last hatched the egg, with Gilbert nearby,
Concealed in the trash, a festering sty.
Out punched the claws first, which eagerly stretched,
And then the thick legs, with downy wisps fletched.
What followed was greater, grander and mor…