15 August 2023 (more awake)

more awake than I feel morning cardinal

14 May 2023 (sultry)

sultry dusk

the desire

in a cardinal’s voice

20 January 2023 (snowing)

it was snowing

and it was going to snow

cardinal in the cedar

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An homage to Wallace Stevens’s classic “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The italicized lines are from the final stanza of his poem.

12 August 2022 (cardinal)

the cardinal’s song

becoming more intense

summer rain

28 July 2022 (as if)

as if he knows what I need to hear cardinal song

8 July 2022 (rain)

summer rain . . .

a cardinal still singing

somewhere upriver

2 April 2021 (chain saw)

spring cleaning

a cardinal’s song vies

with a chainsaw

16 February 2021 (cardinal)

sleet turning to rain

a cardinal begins

to sing

6 August 2020 (meteors)

meteor shower

a cardinal’s last burst of song

as we go to bed

21 July 2020 (cardinal)

fading sunset

the cardinal’s last visit

before dark

27 April 2020 (cardinals)

neighborhood walk

the shifting boundaries

of cardinal song