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Paradisaeidae (your Latin name)

Accustomed to New Guinea and her islands

But also now and then in Florida

One could spot in yard or garden

Your tropical outrageous orange crest—

A crown of many colors honestly

And not one color of a Florida fruit.

I saw you only rarely as a boy

In our subtropical peninsula.

West Palm Beach was almost part of sand

And sea and plants and animals could be

Sublimely indifferent to us.

Who could own such a crown and be

So tranquil beyond words

O rara avis