Tuesday, February 3, 2015

From afar

I think most of the birds eating seed under the crab apple are juncos. I don't quite know. The cardinal is unmistakable. I wish my beloved had spread the seed closer to the house. But instead he had the birds in mind... not me.

It is safer
To spread seed
Out under the crab apple,
Next to the pile
Of pulled grape vine.
I see the mass of birds
From afar.
They eat seed in the snow.
The only one with a name tag
Is Mr. Cardinal,
So red against the white.

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