grackles and cowbirds
spring's black-clad vanguard siezes
the backyard feeder
The displaced pigeons
and the vagabond sparrows
sulk among snowflakes
daffodils ignore
winter's last futile flurry;
they stretch and awake
grackles and cowbirds
spring's black-clad vanguard siezes
the backyard feeder
The displaced pigeons
and the vagabond sparrows
sulk among snowflakes
daffodils ignore
winter's last futile flurry;
they stretch and awake