Spring Fling

Shuttered birds flutter from balmy bough  Shedding feathery cloak that winter's chill did endow Fueling grounded wings with solar beams Pairing together in reconnoitering teams Scouting hill and dale, Spring's contraband to glean Garnishing their bunkers with bristling thigs and thatched screen Prating loudly in fecund court; feathers carefully preen In rhapsodic chorus their prancing feet to and fro careen Dancing in harmony; their mating anthem rings Matriarch's incubating wings over fertile plaster clings In due course, waddling, furry chicks from each blanched shell springs Frugal pilots navigate their sparsely furnished compound Probing each nook; scouring each mound Pulse and liquids their drills and talons impound With nutritious cargo in tow homeward bound Returning to nursery, satiating each bleating sound