By Daniel Paiz

Feathery Daggers is another installment of nature-related stuff that this writer has found interesting. NaPoWriMo is a time for reflection and pause, but it’s also a great time to learn something new, something you might’ve had no intention of learning about initially. Nature routinely has lessons for our far removed from outside selves to learn, as well as warnings for those of us pondering questionable moves to the woods.

Feathery Daggers

Pick your poison when it comes to trifling with feathery daggers,

countless ways to be hunted down,

if you’re buggy or batty or an invasive type of slimy matter.

stinging as it might be to have your home wrecked,

bees can’t protect their necks against honey buzzards,

filamentous substance gives em armor-like cover.

if flocks are more your speed,

then knives out for caracaras,

youths run in numbers to reduce critters’ appearance,

Pick you apart quicker than Jokic decision-making,

these kids bouncing to eat you if in their neighborhood you’re staring.

if you’re in need of holding calls and running interference,

look elsewhere then a secretary bird to scrape together your messages,

percentage high for this bird on stilts clawing you down onsite.

Not to mention eagles of the sea or crowned variety,

feathery death too easily seems to be awaiting you and me!