Nesting: Birds and Writers

Every year the robins scope out our porchseeking shelter for their nestand every year they slop twigs and straw and leavesevery which way

and usually the mess-nest fallsthree or four or five timesbut they pick all the mess back upand slop it up against the pillarwhich isn't nearly wide enoughfor a secure nest

but they are stubbornand keep at itand slop some mud in itto cement it to thewhite pillar

and you know I'm going tocomparethis to writing a book, right?
. . .the way I toss this and that onto the pagehoping it sticksand sometimes it doesn'tand it makes a messbut I am stubbornand I keep at it
cementing those wordsto thewhite page.
ciao, bellas . . .xx