Staccato Statement

In the distance, the piercing shriek
of a Pileated woodpecker declares
its imperative to avail of the
plenitude of bark-burrowing and
-infested pestilence within its
undisputed territory of the inner
forest. Large and primitive in
appearance, its daunting bony
cranium sends large splinters
of a majestic, towering pine into a
cellulose shower, gaping raw wounds
left on the grand old trunk testament
to the great bird's function to
maintain nature's balance in the
wild blueprint of her creatures' --
flora and fauna -- survival capacity
as each pursues their defined destiny
relentlessly preying on one another.