Berkeley sidewalk
munching on french fries –
grizzled crow
birds
everyday the doves come by to visit,
lured by scattered seed,
a small gift for the guests
now playing,
birdsong at dusk
music on the livingnet
low over the valley,
honking geese,
blossoms of fall
hopping from the arbor up the roof
grape thief jay
flies prize away
102 in the evening shade –
birdsong welcomes night
slowly, softly
garden yin, garden yang
doves and jays
pecking at scattered seed
everyday pine-top crow
takes the high ground
caws out to the world
sundown –
a confusion of crows,
the cawcawphony begins
sleek jay eyes scattered seed . . .
eyes me eyeing him . . .
sprints to fence, to tree . . .
pine-top crow
gazes into distance empty,
flies off
bare branches soak in silence
broken once only
by the cry of a crow
black and white -
crows, egrets
in rice fields, feeding
one-legged jay,
hops, pecks,
screeching flies off
east flying crows
caw & caw,
announce the coming night
scruffy one-legged jay
hops about scattered seed
dusk in the valley,
crows gather, flock,
10,000 caws
inside the gift shop
two captive birds
sing for each other
all jays
under heaven
squawk
one dove
gracing
the giant pine–
sunset