What is your favorite sound?
Mine comes each winter dawn
At a special place
Tom Baker Senior found
After battles gainst Japan
It’s made by a small brown bird
In choirs of ten to twenty
Circled tail to tail
To signal wake-up to their fellows
Called “whistling off the roost”
It restores the soul
Of those whose hearts abide
On that ridged sandy ground
Tom Baker Senior found
Where quail abound
CHINQUAPIN
Coordinates
30.00’40” N
82.49’47” W
Tom Word, 2024