Fancy Hair

I turned on the water sprinkler under the Weeping Willow A fine stream it did spray The tree was lacking the nourishment that it gets from water For it has not rained much in many days As I was working in my kitchen and viewing the scene Along came a male Red Cardinal On a rose bush he did preen Just close enough to the water to receive a fine spray When he was water coated, he flew away Up into the Weeping Willow and puffed his feathers out Shook his tiny body as a dog after taking a bath Then he sat in the Weeping Willow and rested for a spell Before he had time to dry, a Black Bird Landed on a Weeping Willow limb Just close enough to the spray to get his shower today Very intelligent these birds of the yard Knowing how to refresh and clean their feathers Sometimes I wonder if they are not more intelligent Than some of the humans that have big brains And fancy hair.... (I'll call it free verse for no other reason than I don't know where else it would fit.)