CAPRIMULGIFORMES
           by Tom Gannon
               c. 12/90
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		I

secret birds with deep plaintive
names like goatsucker, night-
hawk, and chuck-will's-widow:
who lay their eggs on flat-tar
roofs, letting the sun's
heat play mother


		II

laid her eggs on the flat-
tar roof of McKinley
Elementary, whose fifth-grade
teacher was a dark-haired
32-year-old masturbatrice
who loved deep plaintive
names like goatsucker night-
hawk and oh! chuck-
will's-widow, who loved
the darkly maternal,
the very, sound of
_caprimulgiformes_


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