Great Regulars: The Curlew

by Peter Branson
(The curlew is on the red list of species judged to be on the road to extinction.)

"O curlew, cry no more in the air"--W. B. Yeats
The Peak District National Park

This tearful horn-anglais refrain haunts like

from CounterPunch: Poets' Basement: Three by Peter Branson

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