feather – leaf and twig

In The Enormous Woods There Perches A Tiny Soul

feathered emerald
the size
of a birch leaf

the forest writes
her under-story with
a fern-pod feather plume

leaf feather
rooted to the earth
sailing on light

two witch’s hats
one adorned
by a feathering leaf

tattered feather
more precious now
for all it has given

in the kindness
of June’s gentle sun
babies feather and iris bloom

a feather
of fern seeds
waves in the wind

A nest awaits
the feathered promise
of new beginnings.

seeds take
feathered flight
for monarchs’ sake.

The babies have feathered and flown.
It is time to wing to the South.
Your house holds the echo of your song,
and awaits your return in the spring.