Pez dispenser for sky musicians
Attracts only flightless acrobats
Grey Cirque de Soleil escapee squirrel
Hangs with monkey tail
Robbing the offering
Like an illegal lover
After dark, more obscenities
A tinsel-eyed raccoon
Has my John Deere green
Father's Day gift on the fecund earth
Gnawing and drunkenly oblivious
To the cursing flashlight
At last, sobered by my approach
Hurries to a forgotten appointment
I'll hang my scarred green gift again tomorrow
But even in the mirror-bright morning
These high church warblers
Will refuse my oiled sunflower virgin seed
Stained by squirrel scent
Spoiled by raccoon slobber
31/8/06
copyright 2006 Trevor Haug
from "Poems from the Hedge"
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