Meadowlark

 by Mary Oliver

Has anyone seen the meadowlark?
I've been looking for probably
forty years now

unsuccessfully.

He used to live in the field
I crossed many a morning
heading to the woods,
truant again from school.

There are no meadowlarks in the school.
Which was a good enough reason for me
not to want to be there.

But now it's more serious.
There is no field, neither have the woods
survived.

So, where is the meadowlark?
If anyone has seen him, please would you let me
know
posthaste?

from: Felicity, 2015.