Welcome to the Website of Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr.

People’s Poet Laureate of Nassau County, N.Y.


   Everything in life can be expressed as poetry. There is never a moment that does not lend itself to becoming a poem, much to the chagrin of my family. I will write a poem in the middle of a church service, in line at the movies, at the dinner table. I have no shame when it comes to poetry.

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I stand lookout for them in autumn,

raptors massing out of Canada, New England

advancing down the barrier beaches,

foraging as they come--

Cooper’s , Sharp-shinned Hawks

hurtling  over the dunes,

Merlins, small dark missiles of speed,

Kestrels heliocopter hovering on beating wings,

Northern  Harriers dropping over prey like shadowy cloaks.

Always, I scan the sky for the meteoric one,

the Peregrine Falcon,

catapulting out of the horizon into the Tree Swallow flock,

Monarch of this pilgrimage of predation


         







                    


 

 

           

           

Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr.