An urgent message from Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Faith of olive-green wings
a small red circle on her crown,
kwee! kwee! kwee!
an insistent call and tapping
at her studio window as
the kinglet flies from the Western Red Cedar
back and forth from the tree to her window.
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— Gwendolyn Morgan, from “An urgent message from Ruby-crowned Kinglet”
in Snowy Owls, Egrets & Unexpected Graces (Wayfarer Books, Homebound Publications)