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Friday Night Poetry: “If He Proposes, Say Yes”
Jessica de Koninck
December 22, 2017
Consider the sparrows
picking at insects.
Their small high-pitched chirps
dot the landscape with worry.
Consider the sparrows
hidden in hedges,
tiny dull warblers
of suburban afternoons.
Watch them swallow seeds,
sip from shallow puddles.
How easily they scare
when a sleek cat wanders by,
climbs into a tree,
searches for dinner,
stretches out a paw
agitating the branches.
Consider the sparrows
perched on phone wires.
Even through winter
they nest in front yards.
This poe is reprinted from Cutting Room (2016, Terrapin Books).
Jessica de Koninck is author of Cutting Room.
