leave their claptrap nests, on high poles,
in late summer to winter-over where
the climate's warmer and fish plentiful
and leave us to await their thrilling spring
return to renovate their claptrap nests . . .
From "Some Birds," a new poetry collection by George Held of Sag Harbor.
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