Breakfast at the Birdfeeder Diner
wrens and sparrows arrive first
5:30 am sunrise long shadows
barcode the entryway
a flock of morning doves land
survey the ground, then hop up
on the birdseed buffet
pecking away nudging early
risers out of the way, need seven
times their weight for the day
the big boys twice the size arrive
two-tone gray and translucent blue
push all the others out of the fray
all the light-weights amble at the feeder
base pecking up crumbs and husks
the big boys missed in their haste
in less than an hour, two feeders
stripped bare, and the breakfast diners
go searching for another buffet
all while a neighborhood cat-posse skulks
around the outer wall and fence, eyeing
their potential ‘bird-breakfast’ buffet
–LE
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