cold
as if freezing temperatures want to keep on icing over the bird waterer
all the plastic umbrellas keep the sunshine but the drying wind
disappears with all the moisture
so it's about right that winter begins around Christmas
and ends around June to return its frost in September
Yesterday the local Robbin returned
looked at me
as if we already knew each other
that's April 5 in zone 2b-3a, the latter for optimists
now when I lived near Point Pelee
the earliest Robbin was May 5th
I keep feeding the birds, mostly sparrows, hundreds of them,
some sing,
the odd black bird, a pigeon or two
no squirral, deer are gone for some time now,
have not seen that singular rabbit this winter
this is dead country, build on the death required of others