Four cardinals
March 7, 2010
Four cardinals
beat as one
grace knotty limbs behind me
no song forthcoming yet.
But today smells like change:
sniff April in the muddy grass
push past one last soiled snowpatch
that four cardinals ignore.
Four cardinals.
Thunder growls.
An eastern breeze.
A bloody footprint.
Winter’s hurt will soon fade
in the light of a new season
and four cardinals
pray as one.
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