Vole, Mole, or Mouse?

Tomcat on patrol
Crouch, watch, pounce, hold, clamp in jaws
Escape with catch

Whatever you do
Don't let that woman with the
Cam'ra steal your prize

~dkm 244/365

March Grace

Each spring more thrilling

Than the last. Comes a gladness

with budding and leaf

Sacred sensation

Forced by it's lack for a time

And expected return

The flush of pale green

The yellow, the pink, the white

The freshness of lime

~dkm 243/365

H1N1 Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919

In 1919
My grandfather wrote on the
side of his desk drawer

"All had the flu but Dave, all in bed—
Little Gid quite sick.
Docky Wells here to see him."

"Slept on couch all time.
Did not have my pants off in
1919 up to this date."

"David G. Yoder
Jan. 8, 1919
Wellman, Iowa"

He was 25
No deaths in his family
But some known to him

Spanish flu horror
50 million dead world wide
Nearly one million (in U. S.)

I inherited
Grandpa Yoder's desk in time
What shall I write now...

100 years hence...
that the halfwit Donald Trump
shut down the office

that worked to prevent
another pandemic of
the same magnitude?

And two years later
COVID 19 pandemic
can not be halted?

~dkm 242/365

Faded note in 2020
written in 1919

Grandpa Yoder and desk in 1989
Grandpa, age 97

Desk in 2020

Sweet Discovery With Apology

Ahhhh! A small cache
Of nuts buried by squirrel (?)
Found in compost heap

Sorry to disturb
She said as she buried her
kitchen scraps supreme

~dkm 241/365

Beauty and Truth of COVID 19 Season

Pure white daffodils
In full bloom to blunt advice

#Stay the fuck at home

~dkm 240/365

Of Quarantine and Gratitude

Friends knocked on my door
"Come to your backyard for a
Safe chat in fresh air."

~dkm 239/365

Bumblebee Porch Dilemma

While I thank them for
our food supply, I'm not so
fond of their drilling

~dkm 238/365

Brown Headed Icteridae

The greedy red-winged
blackbirds have passed through, leaving
their dreaded cousins

Today I shooed a
cowbird from the worm feeder
And the bluebird stayed

~dkm 237/365

Meditating With a Mimid

Mockingbird on branch
Operatic arias
One hour of song

~dkm 236/365

Mating Behavior?

Bluebirds in mid-air
Spinning and crashing times five
Wham bam, thank you ma'am

~dkm 235/365