fish, you are ready –

leap – leap –

swim

Red-Winged Blackbird

Smaller than a Robin

O-ka-LEEEEEEEEE!

again the nest

and the parent

eyes closed   mouths open

translucence – sunlight

beacon.

daylily               daylilies

bird beaks new birds,     slight

open mouths

i slept and i woke up in a nest

of magnolia leaves three stories off the ground

two birds were singing

she works the nest

with her beak, checks it

has already been gone

this morning and is

back sitting.

the inchworm was suspended by a thread,

it moved up and down, translucent.

the thread was horizontal to the inchworm,

and almost invisible against the green.

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the dog barked persistently

for me to throw her the ball.

I will wrap myself in

the shawl of the cotton slow

the wrap with jumble

of the elephants.  & oh

the Flight of the Balloons.

the dove the chickadee the cardinal

(her) (she) pecked ate diligently at

the thistle seeds on the white tablecloth, picnic

calm their heads together

and at any rate it was that stretch

of sidewalk up ahead, extending toward

lake, ravine, bridge, park — and now’s

the now of snowflake and snowflakes

messaging.