wet open buggy swale
this spring the bats will feast
tonight hoot owls soar
snatching up mice, voles, rabbits
ducks float
hidden down deep in the ditch
eating a fallen burger bun
tom turkey - tail aloft
gathering up his lovely hens
- a coyote watches from the forest hill
bent necked songbird - dead
kicked along a cracked city sidewalk
I love all the bird activity, and the watching coyote......sad for the deceased songbird. One of the images from Ukraine that really impacted me was that of a small bird, still alive, but with a head injury from the shelling. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteOMG so vivid, so realistic. Even in terms of a metaphor i can read among the normal activity, the sad state of war. The bird with broken neck can represent the present situation in Ukraine
ReplyDeleteThanks gor dropping by my blog today
Much💛love
Well done! Vividly told and grim.
ReplyDeleteNature has teeth and claws, even if we'd like to forget that sometimes. Humans are far less sentimental about the mosquitos eaten by the bats (and most aren't all that sentimental about bats either). What moves us to tears and what we shrug off says something about ourselves.
ReplyDeleteA vivid picture!
ReplyDeletePoor songbird. Your images are strong!
ReplyDeletevivid imagery.
ReplyDeletein the city here, we often see bird roadkill.
Raw and real ,Life isn't pretty !
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