Friday, February 3, 2012

Observations in Five Reverses

                   End
(conditions: snowing and graders)

songiesandjuncos, frozenroses
some big black flapping thing
eightravensraving - and a
magpie in a fruit tree.

                    4
(conditions: white – white – white)

male china pheasant in a game of chicken
with a pick up
and...is that a prairie falcon with the stripe-y cheek?
deer droppings in the birdseed
on the walkway home.


                   3
(conditions: 4" new snow)

threematurebaldsonejuvieonnasprinklerline
eighteenravens pickingthedeerbones,
another mature bald, a magotty pie,
starling
with redwing delusions,
two wet horses
in the driveway.


                    2
 (conditions: cold and high-falutin')

on a phone line star-star-star-star- star- star- starlings.
against a snow field: black part of the magpies.
cockedheadedkingfisher. sunonsnowonsunonsnow.
the brakes work, well enough. a pair of china pheasants -
the male dive bombing the highway.


                   Start
(conditions: slushy and undercast)

fourjuncos, gaudychinapheasant,
hunkeredkingfisher, wetredtail - teflonmagpie - and
roadside, redandbluespeckledticketgiver.