At the Feeder

While the snow whirls

the junco,
gray and white,

shares the
sunflower

seeds at the
feeder

with the
sparrow, brown and rust,

but not

his own kin

a second
junco, gray and white,

at whom he
rages

casts back

into
the storm

while at
school

the twins and

triplets fight

fur and
feather

tooth and
nail

and worldwide

fellow
artists

scientists

poets

inventors

politicos

philosophize

extemporize

minimize

undermine

each others’

designs

and

dreams

too

close

to

their

own

.