Vern’s Equalknocks

Woodpecker clangs on rain gutters,
Gulls gathered in the parking lot
while Crows frolic in the dumpster

Pigeons vie for mates
“bucketaglue, bucketaglue,”
their passion fills the air -

and the

Gulls

cry

“Frenchfries!”

Grackles creak,
shining iridescent
Robins strut
“we’re here!”
though they never left
and the Starlings murmur
and Vern
is day
and night
at once