ca·nar·y kəˈne(ə)rē/ noun 1. A mainly African finch with a particularly melodious song having yellowish-green plumage. ~The Oxford Dictionary As expected, nowhere in the Oxford Dictionary was the word Canary described as a seventeen year old creative writing student,taking an advanced poetry course at NYU. The dictionary also failed to mention that while taking this course, the girl would fall in love with a boy with curly hair who drank black coffee. In the Oxford dictionary, there is no definition for me, Canary Edwards, so I've decided to write my own.