Sunday, January 23, 2011

January

I spend an entire saturday
counting dark-eyed Juncos
2 at the feeder
3 on the ground
puff up their feathers like a hymn
scratching at the ground
like a devil at the door

my brown dog won't stay in
even though she shivers
curled up
between the tree and the porch
something still wild and wolfish in her blood
that refuses to be a house pet


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