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On Migrations

On Migrations a pair of kites, of Mississippi Kites, birds that live in Entre Ríos, Argentina from the end of August to the end of April & that in Spanish are called milanos boreales, or northern kites, nest & breed in the woods of the park near our house, & have for at least four years now, they come for the cicadas & dragonflies & the long days of sun, the ornithologists at www.audubon.org say they’re gregarious, that they migrate in flocks & nest in loose colonies, the map they include does not identify central Kentucky as a nesting site, & truth be told, one pair does not a colony make—throughout the south there are towns like Carthage, Mississippi, connected for over twenty years now to Comitancillo, Guatemala, a few came for jobs & went back home, then returned with cousins & friends & everyone in that Guatemalan city now knows someone in the north & a small dying town in the south now bustles again with children & cookouts & people who love that flat red earth & the slow Pearl River— in the history of the great 20th century migrations, not the ones that families like Ilan Stavans’s made http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

On Migrations

Paden, Jeremy
Appalachian Review , Volume 50 (1) – Apr 1, 2022
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a pair of kites, of Mississippi Kites, birds that live in Entre Ríos, Argentina from the end of August to the end of April & that in Spanish are called milanos boreales, or northern kites, nest & breed in the woods of the park near our house, & have for at least four years now, they come for the cicadas & dragonflies & the long days of sun, the ornithologists at www.audubon.org say they’re gregarious, that they migrate in flocks & nest in loose colonies, the map they include does not identify central Kentucky as a nesting site, & truth be told, one pair does not a colony make—throughout the south there are towns like Carthage, Mississippi, connected for over twenty years now to Comitancillo, Guatemala, a few came for jobs & went back home, then returned with cousins & friends & everyone in that Guatemalan city now knows someone in the north & a small dying town in the south now bustles again with children & cookouts & people who love that flat red earth & the slow Pearl River— in the history of the great 20th century migrations, not the ones that families like Ilan Stavans’s made

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Apr 1, 2022

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