Great Regulars: This exercise produced a very entertaining menagerie--

and, not surprisingly, an equally intriguing cast of human observers going about the double work of description, both evoking what they're looking at and revealing something about human lives in the process. In CJ Allen's sly and evocative parrot poem, we meet a sharply-etched, gnarled old bird, and in the process encounter the couple who care for this memorable creature.

The Parrot by CJ Allen

They were not married, exactly,

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Poetry Workshop: a creature feature

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