Day 11: Bird Story

the morning sun reaches

the upper branches of our oak

in silhouette but not yet lit

perches a bird

a mockingbird I decide

the head - shoulders - one wing 

illuminated

- gradually -

- the tail is correct -

the sunlight fulls:

The immovable bird

is a truncated branch.

100 Day Project - Days 34 - 41

I mostly used tiny collage bits this week and stamping with my eraser stamps. Except that the delicate leaves were printed by pressing real leaves and pine needles onto my stamp pad. It looked so nice that I used the idea for an Easter card.

Day 5 - Fog with Crocuses

"croci" is too piercing

for this softly foggy Easter morning,

though angry squirrels squawk at me

when I cast out crumbs of bread for them.

I know that those crocuses blooming

in the furthest corner of our yard,

apart from our garden,

were replanted

years ago

by tiny

paws.

Day 2: No Competition

Jays with their brash flashes of blue

spy the flock of dapper gray and white juncos

their bright yellow beaks finding the

first fresh food of spring after the rain.

The Blues mingle among them,

strut and flutter, nab a snack,

wings wide whisk to a higher vantage . . .

sated, unmoved, the juncos move on.

Buel P. Colton, Zoology: Descriptive and Practical (Boston:D.C. Heath & Co., 1903) 241

University of South Florida

Day 1: Tanka for Spring

winter’s dry breath held         exhaled today - spring mist

scrimmed distant trees softened the kingfishers' flight

paired across the thawed pond