The Garden

May 21, 2008

by Phebe Davidson

I watched a hawk stoop hard for prey.
The other day
I saw him blast
a squirrel’s nest,

saw the drift and splinters shiver
on morning air.
I saw the yard
empty and heard

no sound—one long minute, nothing
stirred or sang. Then,
in that charged space,
one raucous jay.

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