I hope there's no paywall to prevent you reading this article in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/opinion/eliot-waste-land-poetry.html
My response to it is this poem, which I wrote in 2014. (Yes, the photo at the bottom is of a cardinal).
Imagine a bird
The backyard, mud and snow, sad grey-green grass.
Imagine a bird impossibly red in this monochrome landscape.
I remember a woman in a red coat
surrounded by schoolboys in blue blazers.
Words spill from me,
cadence and echo carving time.
I want to paint an impossibly red robin
ablaze in the dimming light.
(Copyright W Kirchmeir 2014)
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