Mournful Whistle

" Mournful Whistle "

by Suzán Jiván

Haunting
the outer
beaches
as migrants
in the interior
short
thick bills
in winter
mournful whistle
dropping
in the middle
long
distance slimmer
wing tips
rich whistle
golden-plover
snowy
piping killdeer
broken
wing flopping
mostly
orange white
collar
field mark
obvious
underparts
mobbed
dark-tipped
whistle
clear "wheeep"
wave
washed rocks
harsh
sharp foreparts
hard, "kwip"
stout
bill over winter
teetering
bobbing uncommonly
solitary
barred underparts
muddy pond
bush top stodgy
bulky body
marbled
flocks of godwits
fairly
common on one spot
whistles
of wandering on and on
whinnying
trilling early in winter
darkening still...