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The Phone Not Ringing

Daniel Patrick Sheehan

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. When I was...

Feeding

Daniel Patrick Sheehan

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...