Goldfinches, by Jed Feffer

Jed Feffer

Day by day
more of the goldfinches
are sporting
patches of canary yellow
on backs
on throats
on tails
and today
looking up through
branches
I saw the star
shape of flowers
breaking open
on twigs.
There were flocks
of robins
on a farmer's field
ducks erupting
in the sky
and the tweedling
and wheezing of blackbirds
in the trees.
It is spring
It is muddy
It is spring
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!