First Things RSS Feed - Daniel Patrick Sheehan https://www.firstthings.com/author/daniel-patrick-sheehan en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:27 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/daniel-patrick-sheehan 60 The Phone Not Ringing https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/the-phone-not-ringing https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/the-phone-not-ringing Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500 The cumuli reach to the noontime moon.
Nuthatch and warbler, starling and cowbird,
Fall like the famished on seed and suet.
Off their heads today, they trill and drone.

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]]> Feeding https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/04/feeding https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/04/feeding Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 Here she is again, old Worm-beak,
Breast the color of a mud lake,

Perched on a post of the rail fence,
An eye of shining insolence.

Frowzy, windblown, she whistles twice
Some notes retrieved from Paradise,

Swoops and spears the lawn and is gone
Into the cherry’s greening crown.

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