Short House Sparrow Poems

Singing
from the roof top -
house sparrow
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cold chipping sparrow 

cozy warm garage it flew~

peer out windowpane


1/18/2021...

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A fat flouncy funky flunky house sparrow bobs and bows his way tacking like a clinker built  

dingy sailing across our sea of grass catching worms fattened by May's sun and showers ....

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late spring arthropods
not as things should be
many absentees
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swallows still absent
butterflies the odd one
today a wood brown
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azure springtime sky
should be full of life... empty
no i'm going blind
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house sparrows chirping
heard but cannot be seen
pond water warming
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the common garden
spider A diadematus absent
could be it is late
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A lifeless house sparrow lays dead
In the middle of the towpath
As if asleep on a green sheet;
Its body still warmed by the sun
That one could mistakenly guess
Its demise was moments before
My arrival except that its
Only exposed eyeball was gone
Indicating an earlier
Death. No decomposers arrived
As yet, usually the maggot
Flies are the first at a death scene.
I picked up the feathery corpse
And buried it beside the path....

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