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Bird Feeder
By Michael Lee Johnson

Baby,                                                                                                       

born

just

a

sparrow-

first flight

from balcony

to tree limb.

A chip of corn falls

from the feeder

to the ground.


Copyright 2008 Michael Lee Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer residing in Itasca, Illinois. He is the author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/boo_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. He has also published two chapbooks of poetry.
http://poetryman.mysite.com

nim•bleadj. 1. Quick and light in movement or action; deft.
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