5/25/19: How Much?

do sparrows

wonder if they’ve spoken

too truthfully?

5/23/19: Thanks for a Pigeon’s Reassurance

as the L arrives,

I hear your coo—throat-

deep and sure

birds fly back,

and we emerge from hiding,

blinking against light

shouting as

birds tweet sweetly, and humans

scheme

today a lost bird—

arriving early—sang whole

notes just to me

at the Sedgwick L

wondering what is too cold

for pigeons

feeling compelled each

time I see a dead bird to

take its picture