Poetry

Scarlet macaw colors this world
as does emerald toucan, orange-
chinned parrot, and yellow-crowned
euphonius sipping a fuchsia bromeliad.
You traipse over shallow root systems
for a glimpse of violet-saberwing hummingbirds. You zip by in a Zodiac on choppy
Pacific seas for blue-footed boobies.
But to find the gold at rainbow’s end,
you’ll have to fly with me through
the Costa Rican rainforest
of my moist imagination where
I may show you this recently identified
species. Rare? No. Extinct? Yes.
At the end of the rainbow flies the indigo
ghost bird of the clouds of Monteverde.