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A Winter Buffet

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows chirping and hopping branch to branch waiting for the feeder to be free of cardinals juncos and jays bickering for seed while on the ground four doves stroll in silence feasting on spilled seed near the tree where a fat squirrel sits with tail high in a question mark ready to dive and scatter them all Donal Mahoney

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Date: 2/7/2017 8:56:00 AM
I love the way this flows from tercet to tercet! Delightful image!
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Donal Mahoney
Date: 2/7/2017 9:03:00 AM
For me at least, I find the tercet or writing in three lines helps me in some way I don't understand. Been writing a long time and this has come to be in the last few years. Thanks for reading my work.

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