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Catbird<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Dumtella carolinensis<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Gray pretender<\/p>\n samples beats<\/p>\n <\/p>\n from spring peepers<\/p>\n and circus jays.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coy poacher<\/p>\n salts its song<\/p>\n <\/p>\n with crow ratchets<\/p>\n and blackbird rasps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Droll plagiarist<\/p>\n cribs calls<\/p>\n <\/p>\n from silken oriole<\/p>\n and spring bobolink,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n even thieving<\/p>\n the wildcat\u2019s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n wounded mew.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dan MacIsaac<\/strong> writes from Vancouver Island. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including Magma, Avis<\/em> and Agenda<\/em>, and is forthcoming in Stand.<\/em> \u00a0Brick Books published his debut collection Cries from the Ark<\/em><\/a> in September 2017.\u00a0 His writer website is danmacisaac.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catbird \u00a0 Dumtella carolinensis \u00a0 Gray pretender samples beats from spring peepers and circus jays. Coy poacher salts its song with crow ratchets and blackbird rasps. Droll plagiarist cribs calls from silken oriole and spring bobolink, even thieving the wildcat\u2019s wounded mew. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15603,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions\/15603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}