… Fig-peckers of yellowhammer
descent. Thumb-sized or tongue-sized. Kings used to catch them …
UChicago assistant professor Rachel Galvin reads her poem “Ortolans” at a 2015 creative writing faculty reading.
(embed video No. 3, which is the longest of the three)
Read the whole poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57579/ortolans