Bird-song and Wire
The Rocky Mountain blue-bird Is a point of blue fire ; The meadow-lark Sings above the hum Of the telephone wire.
Straight and gaunt The poles stand; They walk stiffly Over a thousand leagues Of rough land.
Alice Corbin Henderson
The Rocky Mountain blue-bird Is a point of blue fire ; The meadow-lark Sings above the hum Of the telephone wire.
Straight and gaunt The poles stand; They walk stiffly Over a thousand leagues Of rough land.
Alice Corbin Henderson’s spare snapshot sets a bright, living thing against a stiff, human-made landscape. A Rocky Mountain bluebird ignites the scene as a “point of blue fire”—vivid, flickering, utterly alive—while a meadowlark sings above the low drone of a telephone wire.
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