by Penelope Scambly Schott
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| BBC Graphic January 26, 2022 |
Empty bird feeder
starts banging,
keeps banging
against my window.
News report:
troops at borders.
Birds and I
share bad dreams.
Penelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her newest book is On Dufur Hill, poems about the cycle of the year in a small wheat-growing town.