DECEMBER NOTES
By Nancy McCleery
The backyard is one white sheet
Where we read in the bird tracks
The songs we hear. Delicate
Sparrow, heavier cardinal,
Filigree threads of chickadee.
And wing patterns where one flew
Low, then up and away, gone
To the woods but calling out
Clearly its bright epigrams.
More snow promised for tonight.
The postal van is stalled
In the road again, the mail
Will be late and any good news
Will reach us by hand.
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“December Notes” appears in Nancy McCleery‘s collection Girl Talk (The Backwaters Press, 2002).
Photo: “Bird tracks in the snow” by Willie, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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