"Shall we follow ...

... The deception of the thrush?" So asked T.S. Eliot in "Burnt Norton." Patrick Kurp takes him up on it: Listen to the Mockingbird. I've never been to Houston and am surprised to learn it is so wooded a city. And while we're at it, it's worth reading the greatest poem in which a mockingbird figures: Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."