I laughed today when this video popped up, I made it in 2020 for the SHAPE Library for Poetry Month. I made four "poetry moments" that month. This one though begins with subtle acting!
The rains have stopped here and the temperature dropped 30 degrees today, all I can say is ah.
Between the buildings between classes
and rainstorms and thunder rattling the day
the finches believe no one sees them
constructing a nest in the shrubbery,
but I see them. I saw them two days
ago when I stopped to watch as they worried
a long weedy reed past needles, acting
nonchalant about how it would not fit.
And now, with so many people passing
they take their next beak full of grasses
and flit into a tree, telling one another
just wait, just wait until everyone
is past – except me – and they dive
back to the shrub, into the interior
where I listen to their gentle speak,
yes, there, that’s perfect.
Oh what fun! Love the video, and the poem of course!
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