My poem, “The Woodpecker’s Tongue” was recently published in Waccamaw, a journal based at Coastal Carolina University. The poem was inspired by listening to a radio interview with the author Walter Isaacson who wrote a biography of Leonardo da Vinci. In the interview, Isaacson describes some of the wonderful, strange fragments in DaVinci’s notebook, one of which was “Describe the woodpecker’s tongue”, which seemed like an excellent prompt for a poem.