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Jeff Reed

1141 Bont Lane
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
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Jeff Reed

  • Chiastic Poetry
  • The Strange Sum of Things
  • Poems
  • Songs
  • Sea to Sea
  • Animagus Extinctio
  • Psalm 37 Menagerie
  • Butterfly Glory
  • Books
  • ABOUT

PILEATED WOODPECKER

September 1, 2025 Jeff Reed

I típ my hát to yóur extraórdináry stúbborn dríve.

Undáunted bý the látest hóusing shórtage repórt,

yóu set óut to máke a hóme by húrling

your héad agáinst the hárd bárk

óver and óver, nót

in frustrátion, as Í

would dó, 

but yóu háppily.

Jáckhammer of the quíet wóods,

you concúss your unfláppable cránial crést

like a flág póinting hómeward in a whípping wínd,

séeing a wárm nést where nóne has béen befóre,

your réd cárpet púshing agáinst the hárd-to-ópen dóor.


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