Air Power

I watched the chick-a-dees

                         struggle

         for a perch at the

feeder

            their wings drummed their

song

                I felt compassion  

then I watched the

                         blue-jay

thwart the chick-a-dees'

                      struggle to feed

triple in size

                    double in strength

and decibels…

                    I grew older

                                        and sadder

                                                                     (1993)