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    The Crocodile Bird
    The Crocodile Bird
    The Crocodile Bird
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    The Crocodile Bird

    By James E. Tague

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    These pieces are offered as works composed over many years, by a writer who shares the view of the late, brilliant Hilary Corke, that ones style has shown progression if not a progress. At least they are published, collected from forgotten files, and as Corke so aptly phrased it, candidates for survival rather than lurking in sad typescript awaiting public birth.

    Certainly they are creations set in time and it is over time that they will be remembered or forgotten, since time is the only judge to render a final verdict. Since a poem is rarely finished to the full satisfaction of its author, it reaches a stage where it is merely abandoned. Hopefully it has found completion to the extent, so properly defined by Robert Frost, where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. JET
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    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 19, 2015
    ISBN9781503543980
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    James E. Tague

    Jim retired from Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) and resided in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, for nearly fifty years but now lives in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. He and his late wife, Lois, had four children. While James, Patricia, and Steven still live in the Drexel Hill area, their daughter Kathleen died in 1994 at the age of twenty-nine. A Korean War air force veteran, Jim served in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1951 to 1954. He has a BS degree in economics from Villanova University and an MA degree in liberal arts from Temple University. Jim has published several children’s stories, a book of essays, a book of limericks, and The Last Field Marshal, a book on World War II. All can be found on his website www.jamesetague.com. E-mail him at jimtague30@comcast.net.

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      The Crocodile Bird - James E. Tague

      THE CROCODILE BIRD

      AND OTHER POEMS

      REVISED 2015

      THE TROCHILUS BIRD @ 2005

      James E Tague

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      "When crocodiles gape the trochilus fly in and clean their teeth,

      And while they themselves are getting their food the crocodile perceives

      That he is being benefited and does not harm them, but when he wants them

      To go he moves his neck so as not to crush them in his teeth."

      Aristotle, Historia Animalium

      Copyright © 2015 by James E Tague.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2015902371

      ISBN:     Hardcover   978-1-5035-4396-6

                     Softcover      978-1-5035-4397-3

                     eBook           978-1-5035-4398-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 02/18/2015

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      CONTENTS

      1.   Homecoming

      2.   Beach Music

      3.   Danny Boy

      4.   The Seagull

      5.   Wounded

      6.   Afterthoughts

      7.   Hospital

      8.   A Perspective

      9.   A Single Thread

      10.   Nets

      11.   Wetlands in Winter

      12.   Directions

      13.   Pollution

      14.   The Old Man of Cam Lo (North Vietnam 1968)

      15.   Stonemason

      16.   Harley-Davidson

      17.   Tiny Sounds

      18.   Retired

      19.   If

      20.   A Matter of Adjustment

      21.   Skid Row

      22.   So They Say!

      23.   When Spring Comes

      24.   Theme For a Tight End

      25.   Whose Who, Are You?

      26.   A Universal Current

      27.   Ecstasy

      28.   Memento Mori

      29.   The Crocodile Bird

      30.   Forecast

      31.   Memories

      32.   Programmer/Analysts

      33.   Detached Observor

      34.   Red-Breasted

      35.   Hit and Run

      36.   Barnegat Light

      37.   Past Recall

      38.   A Man of Destiny

      39.   Rain

      40.   Cycle

      41.   Modern Times

      42.   Night Wait

      43.   No Time

      44.   What Gifts My Son

      45.   A Fateful Choice

      46.   Show It To My Soul

      47.   Ship of Chance

      48.   William Blake

      49.   Embreeville

      50.   Mountain Home

      51.   Baudelaire

      52.   Highway Death

      53.   In Memory of Wilfred Owen

      54.   Three Years Old

      55.   Suicide

      56.   The Party

      57.   Wooden Bridge

      58.   Sonnet to L.A.M.

      59.   Winter Survival

      60.   Lost in Himself

      61.   Daylight

      62.   The Old Laborer

      63.   Kayak

      64.   A Cemetery in Fall

      65.   A Writer of

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