was driving a cherry shaker for several summers. I slowed the whole operation rescuing baby birds' nests out of the trees.I figured out you could carry extra nests on the shaker machine, and how to rescue baby birds off the conveyor belt. Mother birds would accept the substitute nests. Or I would climb the cherry tree quickly and remove the nests before we shook it, then put it back. The world would be a much duller place without songbirds and poets.
from Terry Wooten: Traverse City Record-Eagle: Sharing the Elders Project: Lifelines: Poetry of lugs & shakers
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