Listen

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837)
Landscape with double rainbow

 

Look at six eggs

In a mockingbird’s nest.

Listen to six mockingbirds

Flinging follies of O-be-joyful
Over the marshes and uplands.

Look at songs
Hidden in eggs.

Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967)

 

Choices

Three Studies of a Tree Bullfinch, Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528)

I go to the mountain side

of the house to cut saplings,

and clear a view to snow

on the mountain. But when I  look up,

saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in

the uppermost branches.

I don’t cut that one.

I don’t cut the others either.

Suddenly, in every  tree,

an unseen nest

where a mountain

would be.

for Drago Štambuk

by Tess Gallagher