Sparrows

I can*t say I*m too upset about the sparrows nesting in the back light fixture, or the rabbits who live under the bushes in front, or that one time I found the mouse track in the snow in the front yard, the tail track behind the feet.  I like regular reminders that there are other worlds which impact my all too human one.  If they want to nest in the light fixture... so be it.

Last year the sparrows nested

In the back light fixture.

It has never worked anyway.

Birds came and went all summer.

We bear responsibility for broods upon broods

Of sparrows.

We vowed to seal it off

Before nests began

This year.

Then came the early spring.

It was beautiful.

We forgot.

The cycle has begun again.

Perhaps we will name them

This year.