Suet

Bird supplies were on sale at the local Ace. That, plus our senior discount, given even though the cut-off is 62 and neither one of us is quite 62, meant we filled the cart. 

At dusk

We hang the bird feeders

Bought

With our senior discount:

Thistle seeds

For the finches;

Suet and seed

For the wider variety.

This morning the suet cage

Swings open,

No suet to be seen.

Six squirrels play chase,

Tease a neighbor cat,

Energy abundant.

We think to return

The suet cage,

Demand a new suet cake.

But no

But now

We see the squirrels

Anew.