Published on December 14th, 2008 by Malachi
I’ve just finished new poem, “The Piano” –I’ve been tweaking the Colophon notes, which I will post here in the next day or so.
I went outside to look at the garden, and to feed the birds –Mourning Doves, a family of Cardinals (the head guy I have named “Willebrandt” –and that’s a whole other story) [...]
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Published on March 8th, 2008 by Malachi
The first thing I noticed in the garden this morning was that the bird feeder was full of rainwater –did it really rain that much last night? (Apparently so.)
I made the feeder out of a large old saucepan lid which is upturned and sits atop a fourfoot steel rod [...]
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Published on January 4th, 2008 by Malachi
A couple of days before Christmas there was enough sun to induce me to sit outside and play some more music for the birds. I am at that enthusiastic stage of taking every opportunity to study their reaction.
Oddly enough, there were only sparrows about, and they quickly came to feed, but then [...]
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