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Birds Punctuate the Days
Joyce Clement
apostrophe
the nuthatch inserts itself
between feeder and pole
Semicolon (;)
two mallards drifting
one dunks for a snail
ellipses
a mourning dove
lifts off
asterisk
a red-eyed vireo catches
the crane fly midair
comma
a down feather
bobs between waves
exclamation point
wren on the railing
takes notice
colon
mergansers paddle toward
morning trout swirl
em dash (-)
at dusk a wild goose
heading east
question mark
the length of silence
after a loon’s call
period
one blue egg all summer long
now gone
What does punctuate mean in Birds Punctuate the Days? (besides punctuation like periods that are used in the poem)