Spring in the Time of Covid

Fresh warm breaths of spring

Rattling magnolia leaves

Exhilarating

~dkm 31/52

Winter Song

Throng of pine siskin

Army of red-winged blackbird

Here for the winter

All day every day

Fighting each other for seed

Not stopping for rain

Neither could be called

Lyrical songsters, more like

Dissonant janglers

Eating their way through

twenty pounds of seed per week,

two bags of dried worms

I wonder what our

year-round residents suppose,

or if they notice 

~dkm 30/52 

 

Mushroom Auricularia

Mister Wood Ear Man

Found in grass, moved to pavement

to see more clearly

Reading up, I learn

that auricularia 

sometimes called wood ear 

is often cooked in

Chinese hot and sour soup

I may have had it

Mister Wood Ear Man

Truly? Your head and guts are

delicious to eat?

~dkm 29/52

Hope

This morning I heard

the first spring mating call of

a single bluebird

He perched on the chair

Soon enough to the feeder

came the azure pair

~dkm 28/52

 

Redwinged Flight or Fight or Mating Display

When at rest, he hints

via yellow epaulet

at some deeper truth

 

Only with wings spread

Does the blackbird reveal his

shocking red secret

~dkm 27/52

Red Yellow Blue

Three birds come to feed

Card'nal, pine warbler, bluebird

Primary triad

~dkm 26/52