Jamie O'Halloran

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Avenida 66

Green stepchildren of the Aves.
Red-heads tumble in flight
Across the Arroyo, hang
Like possums in sycamores
Scattering buckshot seedpods
Immigrant, the parrots, like most
Angelenos, squawk about the neighbors,
       Keep to themselves

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