Photo Credit: Dark-eyed Junco by Patti Foley
This poem was inspired by Wallace Stevens’ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Glance out the window
as chickadees grab and go
from a half-full feeder
Scan bare branches
for the source
of that sweet piercing note
Study LBJs* in the garden
who flit off and on
seed-heavy flowerheads
Squint into the sky
to track raptors
who cast fast shadows
Notice flapping herons
heading home slowly
to their heronry
* LBJ stands for little, brown jobs – a term of endearment for small, dark, unidentified birds
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