Legal limits

by | Jan 31, 2023

That Saturday in late January it was still open season. Per day that meant 6 ducks, no more than:

2 mallards (only one can be a hen)
3 woodducks
2 canvasback
1 pintail
2 redheads
1 scaup
1 fulvous tree duck
1 mottled duck
4 sea ducks (no more than 3 scooters)
3 longtailed ducks or 3 eiders (only 1 eider hen)
But no harlequins!!!

So the newspaper said.

That same Saturday
I heard some quantity of above-listed birds
chortle and fuss and quake
leather wings kicking the river to rise up
and I guess they did

because then
a shotgun split the sky and
the silence that followed
broke my ears.

Photo by Townsend Walton on Unsplash

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