Issue 16
Wing
Paul Tylor
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Tree Full of Sparrows
The crooked branches of the sugar-maple tree
Have finally finished their yearly molting.
And the leaves -- their summer vacation
Ended -- left no stragglers behind.
A crowd of happy sparrows now find
The tree's bare limbs irresistible;
And they spend an October afternoon
Celebrating and swapping vantage points:
Dropping down, darting up, resting,
Leaving and returning to the naked limbs,
Each obviously assigning the same meaning
To the shrill syllables they exchange.
~Paul Tylor
Paul Tylor lives in Maryland. He retired from the National
Geographic Society and has two volumes of poetry published by Mercury Books, stories and poems published in the U.S. and Australia and a short
piece in an upcoming issue of Tee Time. Email.
© 2004 by Paul Tylor. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2004 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.