Vireo Haiku

" Vireo Haiku "

by Suzán Jiván

I

Lives in a new world
in the treetops to be heard
incessant singing

II

Name, meaning, "green bird"
upper canopies of trees
sung understories

III

Fluttering of wings
before leaves come out fully
hanging hammock-like

IV

Silky fastenings
migratory fashionings
stylized posturings

V

Couplets beginning
yellowish eyerings, white eyes
exclusivity

VI

Weaving side-to-side
survival, parasitize
incubated eggs

VII

Drab, grayish olive
faint, pale stripe above the eye
undistinguishing

VIII

Greenish leaf-matching
broken phraseology
nix vicinities

IX

Forested settings
within inches of the trunk
neat cups out of bark

X

Name notwithstanding
punctured, pitched out, lower down
brown-headed cowbird...