Saturday, May 28, 2016

How Much Longer Valentine

A sparrow with a strip
of cellophane in her beak
from a pack of cigarettes
on seeing me sitting here
drops it on the grass and
flies off returning shortly
with a tuft of feathers
this time undaunted
by whatever danger
I might represent
proceeding to her nest
just as I was reading
that millions of birds
have disappeared over
this continent alone
the last several years

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