Red

Hopefully the cardinals and the starlings will learn to live together in the back bushes.  We are all part of the Cosmic series.

Red is the new front door,

The paint on the kitchen walls,

The accent color

For almost

My entire wardrobe.

Now red waits

To be ordered

In double-glazed one-inch ceramic tiles

Named for the planet Mars

In the Cosmic series.

Red are the cardinals,

Now returned to the back bushes,

Despite evacuation by the starlings

Yesterday.

The starlings are also part

Of the wider

Cosmic series,

Bits of starlight

In their feathers.

Perhaps the birds will learn

To live together

Eventually.

Hope for all of us

In the wider and widening

Cosmic series.

Beyond tile.