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.