Swollen by recent rain
the creek is animal restless
but seldom gets out of bed;
planted hard, but on its way
to pushing Mississippi mud
through the Gulf of Mexico.
Hard to know what he might be looking out for;
not me, evidently, not in any way that matters.
Trying out a new browser
whose eyes look out straight
even eating birdseed from the ground.
She guesses she’ll slip into the trees now
if I’m so persistently inquisitive.
Maybe a little bigger than a fist
probably the one getting through the fence
to eat the beets.
At the bottom of the lawn
we watched the sharp shinned hawk
lunching upon,
as it turned out, a blue jay.