Poems by Elizabeth Libbey
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Song of the White-Breasted Nuthatch
by Elizabeth Libbey
From Canary Fall 2024
Elizabeth lives in western Massachusetts on 40 acres of wildlife refuge.
I'm swinging on the suet cage
'upside down,'
as you might say,
I'm hanging on the suet cage,
feet hooked to the wire mesh,
my long bill's
stiletto-down,
I'm looking around,
every thing, no thing,
the breeze ruffling
my feather-whites, oh,
that seed you hang
of the big flower sun,
I like that, I'll
hack that, spear that, oh,
I'll clown away
your lonely,
make it migrate,
I'll stay,
show up early
in a curtain of flurry in
the blue steel air,
I'll let you
believe that to see
the every, see the no
the way you do,
head in the clouds
your one flight,
is the right,
oh, the only
way to be
all this
© Elizabeth Libbey