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“Best of 2025” at Salvation South: Andy Fogle and Chuck Reece name their No. 1 poems of the year—Jacqueline Allen Trimble’s blues-soaked elegy and F. Dylan Waguespack’s searing hymn for a homeless father—alongside two deep walks through the Southern verse that moved us most.

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Bird Of Juno -

The peacock is often depicted as her constant companion, sometimes seen at her side in sculptures or pulling her celestial chariot through the heavens. The Myth of the "Hundred Eyes"

The "" is a poetic and mythological reference to the peacock (or peafowl ). In Roman mythology, this bird was sacred to Juno, the queen of the gods and protector of marriage, women, and the state. bird of juno

The most famous legend explaining this association involves , a loyal hundred-eyed giant tasked by Juno to guard a white heifer (who was actually the nymph Io, one of Jupiter's lovers). The peacock is often depicted as her constant