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24, 2020 poem a week: petaluma, 2009 / january 17, 2020 by beth winegarner "hunt & behrens, petaluma" by fred davis is licensed under cc by-nc-nd 2.0 birds boomerang above the tin spires of the empty granary. its stacks are ringed with rust. its threadbare sheds stand hollow, doors open, framing the
for bugs. as i approach they take to the sky in one smooth, silent trajectory. it is clear, even when humans are not using this land, these birds think of it as ours. i do not want it to be mine. i want the green expanse, a kind of banquet of insects, to be theirs; i want them to tell me when i am intruding...
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the five digits of the front feet. the family mustelidae also includes the similar ferrets, weasels , wolverines , otters , stoats , and fishers, with the badgers being those mustelids in the three subfamilies of melinae, mellivorinae, and taxideinae, depending on the taxonomic scheme. eight extant
carnivores and birds of prey, including foxes , eagles , and wolverines . badgers consume a wide variety of animal and plant life, including earthworms , insects , small vertebrates , and roots and fruit . they thus contribute to terrestrial systems as part of food chains . for humans, they have been...
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