By jlynch on January 25, 2007. Widgeon For Paul Muldoon It had been badly shot. While he was plucking it he found, he says, the voice box - like a flute stop in the broken windpipe - and blew upon it unexpectedly his own small widgeon cries. Seamus Heaney Tags Poetry More like this The sign of a great poet: writing a poem about widgeons, and not making them rhyme with pigeons.
The sign of a great poet: writing a poem about widgeons, and not making them rhyme with pigeons.