Sparrow

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- 2019 -

Early summer air sits,

slow with expectation,

a weighty sweetness in the wind

buffeting the cupped wings

of a sparrow


She dips to meet

the crisscrossed carpet

of pine needles, yellow and green

interwoven and teeming

with insect life


The floor bristles

with young footsteps

leaving tentative crunches

to hang in the air

and branches


Wooden eyes,

carved and painted

lips protruding from the trunk

with a mouthful

of bird seed


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