Winter Meal

junco like a bobble-head
rhythmically dips
from an earth-shaking hunger

pecking seeds
as a toothpick-bird
not getting any younger

winter is
a time to search
for his inanimate prey

I wonder
how much he’ll eat
by the end of day

starling waits
upon the eave
for what he might espy

hungry as
a bear in spring
he flits as junco flies

©January 19, 2004