Pigeon Porn and other signs of Spring
Snow-defying witch
hazels light their zest-scented
early yellow flares
Thousand-mile migrants
on just-thawed ponds glide past red
ice-rescue ladders
Atop stopped female
male sparrow hovers in place
beating blurry wings
Pigeon on pigeon
making more pigeons. Can there
ever be enough?
Newly weaned, sun-blind,
hunger-driven, three lean rats
chance a curbside brunch
Tightly furled beauty:
Twinned ranks of cherry trees tense
on the brink of bloom.