'Every day, all day,
over the cicada's drone,
a drizzle of buzzings fell,
and a downpour of birdsong.
'Hornbill, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Diederik,
Mousebird, Whydah, Canary:
from gray-light-come to last-light-gone,
the fancy-dressed suitors of the veld
warbled their rain-shower jazz.'
(a couple of poetic paragraphs from the book Ostrich and Lark, by Marilyn Nelson and illustrated by San artists of the Kuru Art Project of Botswana, 2012)
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