"MEADOWLARK"

MARY OLIVER 

 

Has anyone seen meadowlark?

I’ve been looking for probably 

forty years now

unsuccessfully. 

He used to live in the field 

 I crossed many a morning 

heading to the woods,

 truant again from school. 

There were no meadowlarks in the school. 

Which was a good enough reason for me 

not to want to be there. 

But now it’s more serious. 

There is no field, neither have the woods survived. 

So, where is meadowlark?

 If anyone has seen him, please would you let me know 

posthaste?