Showing the Birds

by Mary Oliver

Illustration of a dodo by Belle MellorLook, children, here is the shy,
flightless dodo; the many-colored
pigeon named the passenger, the
great auk, the esquimo curlew, the
woodpecker called the Lord God Bird,
the....

Come, children, hurry -- there are so many
more beautiful things to show you in
the museum's dark drawers.

Illustration by Belle Mellor



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