from Mist Nets
4.
Droving to bananas
Beryl-spangled
Golden-naped
Dogs guarding the pack against hubcap
A butterfly house
You say Parakeets flew over
Silver-backed
Saffron-crowned
Focusing correct
You say Life birds with Coca-Cola
Blue-necked
Palm
Rock chiseling
You say No stopping for ducks
Sleeping to water
Walking by river
A roadside hawk
You say I never got a good look
The green hermit
Pisco sours
You say You just imagined it
The water grooves
You say To the mottle-cheeked
Reed bundles under the cushions
An ambient solitaire
You say That’s the one you call blood-red?
You say The last one was 873, female
You say The culture of being loud
750 soles a month
Hot spring steam
5.
A line of light
Mistaking endemic
Mistaking falling leaves for birds
900 soles a month
Gold a no-go
Looking for river otters
Refusing to haggle
The Andes striped
Votes mowed into mountains
You say Anyplace people can do it, birds can do it
You say The ground is so soft
Stopping for a streak-fronted
The cacti tangle an elegant nest
Building when there’s money
Yellow-flowered hillside
You say High mountain desert and a little wetland
You say Nobody wants to look at the bird I’m looking at?
A harrowing dust cloud
A what is it refrain
Brick piles baking
Archaeological zones
Cloud stuff coming across the road
Would have liked to stop for ruins
You say Did we see this already?
You say Puna grassland
You say This will be the last pass
You say Strong ladies
Stalking the Andean ibis
You say It says something with rocks
Descent from high desert
You say All those pink things are begonias
Moths flocking the dining room
You say Where’s the dodderall here?
The dining room screened in
You say It was the same one already seen
You say Oven birds are you ready?
You say I like all the frogs
A huge moth distraction
You say That was the distant one?
You say That’s another E
You say Could maybe those two jays hang out?
Stephanie Anderson is the author of In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments (Horse Less Press) and five chapbooks, including the forthcoming Sentence, Signal, Stain (Greying Ghost) and LIGHTBOX (The New Megaphone). She edits Projective Industries and currently lives in either Chicago or Tokyo. Find more at octoberinapril.com.