Tuesday Poem: “A Host Of Sparrows” by Joanna Preston

from Venery

ix. A Host of Sparrows
Observe the sparrows
………………………who cluster in drabs
and treat people as mobile dessert bars.
The sparrows who haunt our picnic tables

and wrestle with pigeons for crumbs and crusts,
who hop like beans in a frying pan,
one eye always perky for cats.

Study the sparrows
……………………..who nest among downspouts,
in drainpipes, in ragged holes in the hedges,
who flutter and scuffle at traffic lights

snatching fag ends and chips
and their own wing tips
out from under huge wheels.

Consi...