Suet Flurries

We have been blessed occasionally  to have this Pileated Woodpecker come right on the deck to our suet feeder. I have been asking the Lord to never let the sight of him up close to become common place. Yep! He became a poem topic.
Suet Flurries © 2014 Molly Lin Dutina    

Pileated on our deck having breakfast

sends suet flurries as pieces roll down his belly

over his tail

to the ground

where squirrel, sparrow, cardinal, junco

all delight at the feast on the lawn

easy breakfast harvest!

Black capped chickadee wants a turn

At suet block

As yet unaware of free falling bounty.

The squirrel warms herself

on the tree trunk in the morning sun

stretched her full length

awaiting the infusion of warmth.

Spring rains

            Wind, thunder

            Fragrant hyacinths

                        Hillside purple with flowers

            Demure trout lilies quickly go to seed.

Forsythia blooms

            Lilac buds opening

                        Pussy willow full blown

                        Soon to send out leaves

Twisty willow branch from florist

            Rooted in the arrangement and sent out one leaf!

            Hope to nurture it and plant it outside

February Primrose is pot bound now

            Ready to live in the garden

I’m pot bound in homemaker duties

            Lord help me enter

            Your center-down silence

            And glory in praising You

            Even in activities of the mundane

Oh fragrant April morning

            Gusty hyacinth perfume

            Raindrops glisten on garden border fence

Symphony of bird song

            Sidewalk littered with night crawlers

Insistent bird cries, “Awake! Spring is here. Now."

I praise You in the work You have given me

in this part of Garden Earth.