Glenn Bach
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(from Atlas Peripatetic)
coo and flight
low-toned moaning
medium-sized slender
neck black bill
pale buff brown
purple and green
black marking midway
wings with dark primaries
pointed at tip
crop milk for three days then seeds and
corn, crab grass
croton, crowfoot
evening browntop
grain sorghum
johnson grass
pine seed, poke weed
primrose millet
proso millet
rye, sedges
sudan grass
sunflower, wheat
wild millets, wild peas
six broods in evergreen trees
loblolly pines
red cedar
shortleaf
ten to thirty feet in the air
wing coverts and scapulars
crown slate
nape slate
hindneck slate
a pinkish wash
a bluish ring of bare skin
in the open fields
cooper’s hawk
goldfinch
indigo bunting
meadowlark
red fox
yellow-rumped warbler
from the early regeneration
chestnut-sided warbler
gray fox
rabbits and deer
ruffed grouse
towhee
song sparrow
yellow-breasted chat
among the park-like pine stands
bachman’s sparrow
red-cockaded woodpecker
wild turkeys
migratory dove over-winter
and short-lived, dying
within the year
Born and raised in Southern California, visual artist Glenn Bach maintains an active life as a composer of experimental music, with works appearing in such online projects/labels as microsound.org and stasisfield.com, and in concerts nationally and abroad. He has curated two successful concert series, and currently runs the site pedestrianculture.com. His current project is a poem sequence, ‘Atlas Peripatetic’, inspired by an extensive mapping of sounds on his morning walk, excerpts of which have appeared in such journals as The Argotist Online, Aught, Chiron Review, DIAGRAM, and hutt, among others.