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Loggerhead Shrike
~Loggerhead Shrike~
A sparrow bleeds
from taut barbed wire
strung around harvest-worn
and frozen fields
razed by the locust's
late summer raid.
Black-capped, scolding chickadees
and dark-eyed rodents:
beware the bandit-masked
and hook-beaked butcher bird.
a sad poem websites say there
a sad poem
websites say there are millions of calves, piglets, deer, birds
and other animals crucified by barbed wire of cattle and other ranchers
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Sorry it's a few years for me to reply. Loggerhead shrikes impale their prey on barbed wire, thorns, and other things as a way of storing food to be eaten later.
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